On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 14:37:35 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 14:26 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit : > > Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > X & Utopia people: do you know what it means when neither g-p-m (through > > > HAL) nor xbacklight (through XRandR) work to change the backlight of a > > > display? Is it a problem in the kernel? > > > I can't control my backlight either (never could). Afaik it's because this > > function is hard wired and not controllable by software on my laptop. > > > > But if you say, that it worked for you before, than this is something > > different. > > The original report was about a regression for a Sony model, yes. > > On my laptop (a Fujitsu-Siemens one), this never worked with HAL but > used to work with XRandR. Which is why I’m suspecting some change in the > kernel, but I’m not sure how this is done in the X server. > What's the value of the BACKLIGHT_CONTROL randr property in the working/non-working cases? (xrandr --prop will list it)
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