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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Yu Luming <luming.yu@gmail.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	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: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:04:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011070412.GA6128@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160549944.3000.347.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 08:59:04AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> it'd also be nice if the linux-ready firmware developer kit had a test
> for this, so that we can offer 1) a way to test this to the bios guys
> and 2) encourage adding/note the lack easily

Sure. Reading /proc/acpi/video/*/*/info should tell you whether a device 
is an LCD or not. The brightness file should then contain a list of 
available brightnesses, and writing one into there should change the 
screen value. There's a patch somewhere that ports this to the 
/sys/class/backlight infrastructure, but I don't think it's applied yet.

I'd write a test up for you, but I don't actually seem to have any 
hardware that implements this properly. Tch.
-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-11  7:04 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
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 [this message]
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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