Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver

Andrew Morton
2006-10-02T00:19:28Z

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?

Thanks.