Bug#462190: xserver-xorg-video-ati: backlight control doesn't work with Radeon Mobility M9

[Ingo Saitz]

fixed 462190 1:6.8.0-1
thanks

Moin

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:14:30AM -0500, Alex Deucher wrote:
> backlight control is an oem specific mess.  In order to fix lid
> support, we had do mess with some of the bios scratch regs.
> Unfortunately, these changes seem to break backlight on some laptops,
> but not others.  I plan to try and sort this out better in the coming

Seems like your plan did work out after all :)

Although I saw nothing specific in the changelog, version 1:6.8.0-1 in
unstable seems to fix this bug for my laptop. Feel free to close the
bug.

Thanks

    Ingo
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