From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com>,
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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:39:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002003908.GA18707@lists.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061001171912.b7aac1d8.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:08:10 +0200
> Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Make the sony_acpi use the backlight subsystem to adjust brightness value
> > instead of using the /proc/sony/brightness file.
> > (Other settings will still have a /proc/sony/... entry)
>
> 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.
--
Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-02 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-30 17:08 [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver Alessandro Guido
2006-09-30 17:14 ` Alessandro Guido
2006-09-30 17:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-02 0:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-02 0:39 ` Matt Domsch [this message]
2006-10-02 0:48 ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-05 10:36 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-06 21:17 ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-06 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-10 14:32 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-10 14:47 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-10 16:10 ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-11 16:28 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-16 17:45 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-25 7:07 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-27 17:24 ` Luming Yu
2006-10-29 17:50 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-30 15:49 ` Luming Yu
2006-10-10 21:26 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 3:02 ` Matt Domsch
2006-10-11 3:16 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 16:37 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11 6:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-11 7:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 8:04 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-11 8:12 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 16:31 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11 16:45 ` Ismail Donmez
2006-10-02 10:29 ` Holger Macht
2006-10-02 11:25 ` Alessandro Guido
2006-10-10 15:17 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-10 15:22 ` Richard Hughes
2006-10-10 21:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-10-11 3:20 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-10-11 16:48 ` Yu Luming
2006-10-11 19:08 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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