Re: Toshiba - Documentation for Linux Developers

Renato S. Yamane
2008-07-15T11:13:43Z

Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> Renato S. Yamane wrote:
>> Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>>> I have Toshiba A100 with Phoenix BIOS. This means toshiba_acpi doesn't
>>> work for me and I can change LCD brightness.
>>
>> 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)
>
> The newest version is packed for openSUSE fortunately. But it doesn't
> for my notebook

Try compile SVN version as commented in my last e-mail

> dmesg is:
> omnibook: Driver version 2.20070211-trunk.
> omnibook: Unknown model.

Try force recognize with ectype parameter.
#modprobe omnibook ectype=x

Where "x" is a number between 1 and 15.

Load with ectype=1, test, unload, try load again with ectype=2, test,
unload...

Best regards,
Renato
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