Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen

[James T. <ja...@nu...>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Wolfram Quester <wo...@mi...>
> Date: December 13, 2005 4:31:58 AM GMT-05:00
> To: James Turner <ja...@nu...>
> Subject: Re: Question about pbbuttonsd and blankscreen
>
> Hi James,
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 03:51:53PM -0500, James Turner wrote:
>> Thanks for all your help guys.  I was able to get all the brightness
>> controls and blankscreen to work.  I indeed had to compile rivafb
>> into my kernel.
> If I am right, you did not post this mail to the pbbuttons-users list.
> Could you please forward it there so that other people trying to solve
> the problem using google know that it is solved that way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wolfi
>>
>> On Dec 12, 2005, at 10:15 AM, Wolfram Quester wrote:
>>
>>> Hi James,
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:30:22AM -0500, James Turner wrote:
>>>> Sorry if this has already been sent, I think there may have been an
>>>> error.
>>>>
>>>> Hi, I have a 12in Rec C PowerBook with an nVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200.
>>>> When running the 0.7.2 of pbbuttonsd on both Debian and Ubuntu I am
>>>> unable to control the brightness of my display.  Also when I set
>>>> pbbuttonsd to blank my screen on lid close this does not work.   
>>>> I am
>>>> aware that suspend to ram does not currently work with nvidia.  Any
>>>> help would be great.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> I guess you are not using the proper framebuffer. With recent  
>>> kernels
>>> you have three possible framebuffers:
>>> 1) offb: This is a fallback which provides only minimal options.
>>> There is
>>>         no brightness control available
>>> 2) rivafb: This is the old driver which is at the same time the
>>> only one
>>>         usable on ppc ATM. IIRC it is not compiled automatically on
>>> 	 recent kernels anymore. I'm using it happily on 2.6.13.
>>> 3) nvidiafb: This is the new implementation which is compiled
>>> normally.
>>> 	 It is buggy on ppc, so most times it doesn't take over on boot
>>> 	 time and leaves offb in place. This is what happens on your
>>> 	 machine I think. I heard benh submitted some fixes for this one
>>> 	 to be included in 2.6.15, but I did not test them yet.
>>>
>>> So, just to be sure, could you post the output of cat /proc/fb on  
>>> your
>>> machine? Make sure you use rivafb, and all should be fine.
>>>
>>> With best regards,
>>>
>>> Wolfi
>>>>
>>>> -----------------------------------------------------------
>>>> James Turner <ja...@nu...>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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