So the problem is not the configuration but that for some reason the 
backlight state is set to off by default.


On Thu, 22 Feb 2007, David Miller wrote:

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> From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:55:24 +0000 (GMT)
> 
> > I just tested various confirations of backlight support. Backlight is 
> > ALWAYS selected by default when you select a particular fbdev driver that 
> > has backlight support. You just have the option to turn it off if you 
> > want. These problems are showing up because of stale .config files.
> 
> BTW, enabling the backlight option broke things for me with
> Radeon on sparc64 too, FWIW.
> 
> And when the option was presented to me for the first time,
> the default was yes, so that's what I gave it.
> 
> This is what a lot of users would see.
> 
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