On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 16:40 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:51 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 11:38, Richard Hughes <hughsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sorry to open an old wound, but it looks like radeon won't be adding > > > BACKLIGHT into the driver, ever. > > > > > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27859 > > > > That surely all belongs into the X server below the randr interface. > > The intel driver does use the kernel sysfs interface below the randr > > interface too. There is no reason other drivers can not simply do the > > same. > > Which is broken if your system doesn't have a platform way of changing > the LCD backlight. > > On my Macbook Air, I cannot change the backlight without switching to > UMS. In KMS, the intel driver tries to use the sysfs interface, and > there's none. > > In UMS, the driver will go bit-banging itself, and can change the > backlight level that way.
Thanks to Christophe for pointing me to: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=history;f=drivers/video/backlight/mbp_nvidia_bl.c;h=1b5d3fe6bbbccd3093cfb2772d4ee9deae42bcea;hb=HEAD (which also handles intel video cards despite the name...) and https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27885 _______________________________________________ devkit-devel mailing list devkit-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/devkit-devel
