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From: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: screen auto brightness key
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 18:30:50 +0100
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On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:27 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Heya,
> 
> We've just landed some HAL software to map "unknown scancodes" to proper
> input keys, as listed in linux/input.h and I can't seem to find a good
> match for the "ALS" key on my Dell computer.
> 
> The "Auto Light Sensing" key turns on/off the hardware monitor for
> brightness and ajusts the screen brightness in consequence.
> 
> It's similar to KEY_KBDILLUMTOGGLE, but for screens. Is there a match I
> couldn't find, or should I kindly ask for the key to be added?

KEY_BRIGHTNESSTOGGLE is probably best IMO.

Richard.