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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt index 25ed43d0a21..3d7650768bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt @@ -1157,10 +1157,15 @@ display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging from 0 to 15. There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control, -EC and CMOS. To select which one should be used, use the +EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode, -brightness_mode=2 selects CMOS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects both EC -and CMOS. The driver tries to auto-detect which interface to use. +brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC +mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered +across shutdown/reboot). + +The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of +defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please +report this as a bug, so that we can fix it. When display backlight brightness controls are available through the standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct @@ -1498,6 +1503,7 @@ to enable more than one output class, just add their values. (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...) 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys 0x0010 Fan control + 0x0020 Backlight brightness There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. |