Re: Toshiba - Documentation for Linux Developers

["Renato S. Yamane" <yamane@diamondcut.com.br>]

Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2008/6/17, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>:
>> Are there any known drivers for Toshiba hardware that you need for Linux
>>  that we should be contacting them about?
>> <http://linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp/linux/eng/develop.htm>
> 
> I have Toshiba A100 with Phoenix BIOS. This means toshiba_acpi doesn't
> work for me and I can change LCD brightness.
> 
> On page http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/docs.html there is also link
> to pdf with registers info:
> http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/downloads/hci.pdf
> 
> However I am not programmer and I have no idea if this is some
> interesging info for developrs.

Rafal, try use omnibook driver.
Get it with subversion:
$ svn co
https://omnibook.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/omnibook/omnibook/trunk

Use "make install" and "make load".

After this, maybe is possible change brightness writing in
/proc/omnibook/lcd (0 is minimun and 7 is max brightness)

Best regards,
Renato S. Yamane
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