Re: [3/3] 2.6.21-rc7: known regressions (v2)

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Forgot to add Richard, sorry for the double post.

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 21:50 +0800, Antonino A. Daplas wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 09:01 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:31:02PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >  > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 04:06:05AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >  > > On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 23:49:09 +0200 Adrian Bunk <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  > >...
> >  > > > Subject    : ThinkPad X60: resume no longer works  (PCI related?)
> >  > > >              workaround: CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT=n
> >  > > > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/13/3
> >  > > > Submitter  : Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> >  > > > Caused-By  : PCI merge
> >  > > >              commit 78149df6d565c36675463352d0bfe0000b02b7a7
> >  > > > Handled-By : Eric W. Biederman <[email protected]>
> >  > > >              Rafael J. Wysocki <[email protected]>
> >  > > >              Antonino A. Daplas <[email protected]>
> >  > > > Status     : unknown
> >  > > 
> >  > > Is this related to the problems Jeremy has been looking at?
> >  > >...
> >  > 
> >  > Dave and Jeremy hran into similar looking but most likely different 
> >  > problems.
> >  > 
> >  > For Jeremy -rc7 is working fine, but for Dave it doesn't.
> > 
> > I think this was due to Jeremy not having CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT=y in his config.
> 
> This is really weird, as CONFIG_FB_BACKLIGHT just selects
> BACKLIGHT_CLASS and LCD_CLASS, and adds an entry (bl_curve)
> under /sys/class/backlight/*/. ACPI_IBM which is set (presumably) in
> Dave's kconfig, also selects the BACKLIGHT_CLASS. And the only possible
> framebuffer drivers in the thinkpad are vesafb and intelfb, none of
> which has a backlight driver.
> 
> I'm still at a loss how this happens.  Dave, can you post your config?
> And have you tried the following settings:
> 
> FB_BACKLIGHT=y
> ACPI_IBM=n
> ACPI_VIDEO=n
> 
> I'm also adding Richard Purdie to the CC list.
> 
> Tony 
> 
> PS: I also get a blank display on resume with a Toshiba laptop.  But
> cycling through the Fn keys brings it back.  I don't know if this is a
> regression, I will have to try older kernels.
> 

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