Re: Backlight?

Matthew Garrett
2004-07-02T11:34:08Z

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 02:31 +0300, Elver Loho wrote:
> I have a laptop. It has brightness control buttons on it, which,
> unfortunately, don't work under Linux. I was wondering. Are backlight and
> brightness controlled by ACPI as well? How would one go about controlling
> them?

They /can/ be controlled by ACPI, but aren't always. It might be worth
trying the patch on http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1944 .
Alternatively, if you have an Asus/Medion or Toshiba laptop then there
are kernel drivers that support their hotkeys.

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