-------- Emmanuel Vadot writes: > On Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:58:58 +0000 > "Poul-Henning Kamp" <p...@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: > > > -------- > > parv/FreeBSD writes: > > > > > > Does backlight(8) works for you? > > > > > > Thanks for the clue. It does! It does ... > > > > > > - I get the same number back via "backlight" without any arguments as > > > what I gave it earlier. There was no reporting of value being > > > subtracted by one; > > > > Sorry for the delay in reporting back. > > > > I consistently read one less back, except for 0 and 100. > > Even 50 ?
# backlight brightness: 0 # backlight 50 # backlight brightness: 49 # backlight 25 # backlight brightness: 24 # backlight 75 # backlight brightness: 74 yes > So if you have, let's say brightness at 50%, and you plug an external > monitor, brightness goes up to 100% ? No, plugging and unplugging does not change the backlight. But when the screen saver has kicked in, and I wake it up again, it comes back at 100, (and reads back as 100) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.