Comment 4 for bug 392948

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Vernie (vernie) wrote : Re: LCD Brightness won't Change - Acer 4736z

Zhang Rui <email address hidden> posted a work around for this bug in
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22598

I hope someone from ubuntu team take a look on this:

DMI workaroudn for broken backlight control on Acer Aspire 4736Z

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <email address hidden>
---
 drivers/acpi/video.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/acpi/video.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/acpi/video.c
@@ -595,6 +595,14 @@ static struct dmi_system_id video_dmi_ta
   DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 7720"),
   },
  },
+ {
+ .callback = video_set_bqc_offset,
+ .ident = "Acer Aspire 4736Z",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Acer"),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Aspire 4736Z"),
+ },
+ },
  {}
 };