On the Apple iMac14,1 and iMac14,2 all-in-ones (monitors with builtin "PC") the connection between the GPU and the panel is seen by the GPU driver as regular DP instead of eDP, causing the GPU driver to never call acpi_video_register_backlight().
(GPU drivers only call acpi_video_register_backlight() when an internal panel is detected, to avoid non working acpi_video# devices getting registered on desktops which unfortunately is a real issue.)
Fix the missing acpi_video# backlight device on these all-in-ones by adding a acpi_backlight=video DMI quirk, so that video.ko will immediately register the backlight device instead of waiting for an acpi_video_register_backlight() call.
Fixes: 5aa9d943e9b6 ("ACPI: video: Don't enable fallback path for creating ACPI backlight by default") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@amd.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com --- drivers/acpi/video_detect.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c index f7c218dd8742..295744fe7c92 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/video_detect.c @@ -276,6 +276,29 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id video_detect_dmi_table[] = { }, },
+ /* + * Models which need acpi_video backlight control where the GPU drivers + * do not call acpi_video_register_backlight() because no internal panel + * is detected. Typically these are all-in-ones (monitors with builtin + * PC) where the panel connection shows up as regular DP instead of eDP. + */ + { + .callback = video_detect_force_video, + /* Apple iMac14,1 */ + .matches = { + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."), + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "iMac14,1"), + }, + }, + { + .callback = video_detect_force_video, + /* Apple iMac14,2 */ + .matches = { + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Apple Inc."), + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "iMac14,2"), + }, + }, + /* * These models have a working acpi_video backlight control, and using * native backlight causes a regression where backlight does not work