From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 12 13:08:52 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91AE216A400 for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@fnop.net) Received: from core.fnop.net (mx.fnop.net [82.102.11.82]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5034713C43E for ; Sat, 12 May 2007 13:08:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@fnop.net) Received: from core.fnop.net (mx.fnop.net [82.102.11.82]) by core.fnop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 156236909A4; Sat, 12 May 2007 14:08:40 +0100 (WEST) Received: by core.fnop.net (Postfix, from userid 1015) id D6C736909B6; Sat, 12 May 2007 14:08:39 +0100 (WEST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on core.fnop.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.1.7 Received: from epsilon.local.fnop.net (87-196-62-114.net.novis.pt [87.196.62.114]) by core.fnop.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D626909A4; Sat, 12 May 2007 14:08:38 +0100 (WEST) Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 14:08:44 +0100 Message-ID: <86abwa2nqb.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> From: Rui Paulo To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1178941549.80037.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <86k5vffjz8.wl%rpaulo@fnop.net> <1178941549.80037.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.5 (Almost Unreal) Emacs/21.3 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: Rui Paulo , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MacBook patches X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 13:08:53 -0000 At Fri, 11 May 2007 23:45:49 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Actually, it's not so easy. This driver operates directly on the Intel > 915 card in the MacBook. The MacBook Pro uses an ATI card. While you > can configure the driver to recognize the ATI card, the backlight code > does not work. There is a utility (userland) at > http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mactel-linux/trunk/backlight that does > this via memmapping on the ATI card. I know it's different, but the concept is the same. Regards. -- Rui Paulo