iBook G4 LCD backlight misbehaviours

Roland Riegel roland.riegel.maillist at gmx.de
Sun Jan 4 04:59:58 EST 2004


Am Samstag, 3. Januar 2004 00:50 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 10:15, Roland Riegel wrote:
> > Hi everybody!
> >
> > Recently I bought an iBook G4 and installed Linux on it. I am using
> > linux-2.4.23-ben1 and have the following problem:
> >
> > When configured with CONFIG_PMAC_BACKLIGHT=y, on startup the screen
> > switches completely off (it took me some time to notice that the kernel
> > does not crash but only the screen turns dark and the system keeps
> > booting).
>
> This machine isn't currently fully supported by 2.4.23 kernels, you will
> have better success using my current 2.6.1-rc1 tree
>
> Ben.

Ok, I will try to switch then.

Thanks for your answer!

Greetings,
Roland


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