The sysctl key for brightness run under X? I have never succeeded to increase or decrease the screen brightness under X. I must use a tty for perform it.
Cordially. Q. Schwerkolt On 05/15/12 11:37, Lawrence Stewart wrote: > On 05/13/12 17:55, Yevgen Krapiva wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> Could somebody tell me what thing in FreeBSD is managing the monitor >> brightess ? > > Given that the function keys don't work, check if you have any relevant > sysctl options to play with. Most likely to find them under hw.acpi, but > try grepping "sysctl -a" output for bright or lcd to see if anything > comes up. > >> I've got Dell Inspiron laptop, FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE and KDE4. >> Pressing the functional combintation of Fn+F4/F5 does not have any >> effect. >> In order to understand what's wrong I need to know in what direction I >> should move. > > Getting the fn keys working requires some ACPI voodoo I'm not familiar > with, so I'll have to defer to someone else to advise on that. The info > at [1] might be a good starting point. The fn keys on my Toshiba R600 > laptop started working only after I loaded the acpi_toshiba.ko kernel > module. I note there's no similar module for Dell's so getting them > working will probably require some fiddling. > > Cheers, > Lawrence > > [1] > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-desktop > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-desktop To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
