Comment 18 for bug 1440891
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(In reply to Eugen Dedu from comment #11)
> Hi,
>
> Is there any progress on this bug? xorg-server 1.19 is being released, is
> this bug too risky to fix for the oncoming release?
We have a patch series on the kernel side that is being polished right now. This introduces a backlight property on connectors and basically allow using the KMS interface to control the backlight.
In the coming days, we will start implementing support for it in the modesetting driver and everything should just work at this point. This is the cleanest design we could think of even though the kernel side is way more complex than it used to be.
Do not expect this feature to be ready before Linux 4.11 though :s We may work on a workaround in the mean time, but I am not sure this will be worth the effort. Stable distros could backport the patchset if they care.