From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Domsch Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:48:24 -0500 Message-ID: <20061002004824.GB18707@lists.us.dell.com> References: <20060930190810.30b8737f.alessandro.guido@gmail.com> <20061001171912.b7aac1d8.akpm@osdl.org> <20061002003908.GA18707@lists.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061002003908.GA18707@lists.us.dell.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alessandro Guido , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net, ismail@pardus.org.tr List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:39:08PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > umm, OK, but now how do I adjust my screen brightness? ;) > > > > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight > > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in > > progress? What is the status of that? > > For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the > libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and > http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo). It's > entirely userspace. Which is to say, if a system-agnostic userspace app exists, please advise, as we'd like to incorporate dellLcdBrightness functionality into it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com