From a21101c46ca5b4320e31408853cdcbf7cb1ce4ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhang Rui Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:46:22 +0800 Subject: ACPI: video: _DOS=0 by default to prevent hotkey hang In the past, the Linux/ACPI video driver invoked _DOS (Display Output Switch) with the parameter 1 to tell the BIOS to switch the video output display for us. But this conflicts with Linux native graphics drivers, and can cause all sorts of issues, including hanging the system. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6001 Here we change the Linux default to evaluate _DOS=0, which tells the BIOS to simply send us a hotkey event and not touch the graphics hardware. The acpi video driver sends the display switch hotkey event up through the intput layer, and X can interpret that and use its native graphics driver to switch the display. For the case where Linux has no native graphics driver running, or the graphics driver doesn't know how to switch video and the BIOS (safely) does, the previous behaviour can be restored with: # echo 1 > /proc/acpi/video/*/DOS Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/acpi/video.c') diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index 3c9bb85a6a9..6cb3e7b1214 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -1754,7 +1754,7 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) static int acpi_video_bus_start_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) { - return acpi_video_bus_DOS(video, 1, 0); + return acpi_video_bus_DOS(video, 0, 0); } static int acpi_video_bus_stop_devices(struct acpi_video_bus *video) -- cgit v1.2.3 From 7f10cc4e838c2b2d7272031954c56c407569d497 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maik Broemme Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:12:34 +0200 Subject: ACPI: video: remove dmesg spam i am actually heavily using the ACPI video extension for my Thinkpad X61 Tablet. I have bound the input events triggered by the brightness up/down keys to a simple echo > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1/brightness but everytime the event is triggered and acpi_video_device_lcd_set_level() is called i got a notificication in my kernel log like: set_level status: 0 set_level status: 0 set_level status: 0 set_level status: 0 ... Signed-off-by: Maik Broemme Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/video.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/acpi/video.c') diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video.c b/drivers/acpi/video.c index 6cb3e7b1214..d05891f1628 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video.c @@ -417,7 +417,6 @@ acpi_video_device_lcd_set_level(struct acpi_video_device *device, int level) arg0.integer.value = level; status = acpi_evaluate_object(device->dev->handle, "_BCM", &args, NULL); - printk(KERN_DEBUG "set_level status: %x\n", status); return status; } -- cgit v1.2.3