From romaxin2002 at yahoo.com.au  Sat Nov  4 09:31:21 2006
From: romaxin2002 at yahoo.com.au (David Romacho)
Date: Sat Nov  4 09:31:46 2006
Subject: [OmniBook] LCD feature not working on a Omnibook XE3
Message-ID: <454CA439.1050807@yahoo.com.au>

Hi,

I am the owner of an HP Omnibook XE3 GC. I installed Xubuntu 6.06 LTS on 
it, then I donwloaded the omnibook source code tarball and build it 
without problems. When I load it, everything is OK.

My concern is about the lcd feature. I am able to read the lcd status 
and write but nothing happens in the real world: the lcd backlight 
remains at the same level. If I change the level by using the function 
keys, the backlight level changes, but the lcd file doesn't get 
modified. So basically the lcd file in /proc/omnibook seems to be 
disconnected from the real lcd backlight. Am I missing something ?

Ah, I am able to turn off the lcd by doing:

echo off > /proc/omnibook/lcd

But this is the only feature that seems to be working for the lcd.

Do you know of any other case like this ? Am I doing something wrong 
(probably yes:)
I would appreciate very much any help or suggestion about how to have 
this feature running in my Omnibook.


Regards,

   David
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From p.furiesi at tiscali.it  Mon Nov  6 02:34:34 2006
From: p.furiesi at tiscali.it (Piero Furiesi)
Date: Mon Nov  6 02:34:50 2006
Subject: [OmniBook] 1024x768x32 res not avail after upg from Xfree 7.0.0 to
	7.1.1
Message-ID: <454EE58A.5010305@tiscali.it>

Hi all,
   I recently upgraded my Omnibook XE3GF from Xorg 7.0.0 to 7.1.1.

Before:
   I successfully used i810 driver with a res of 1024x768@32bpp

After:
   I can only use 1024x760@16bpp, non accelerated, using the fbdev 
driver. The i810 one simply freezes my video.

Please please please tell me why... I read a lot of things (on this list 
and the Internet) about i830M problems with BIOS and shadow RAM... but 
PRIOR the upgrade ALL WAS GOOD...


Cheers,

Piero