On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:08:10 +0200 > Alessandro Guido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?
For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo). It's entirely userspace. -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
