On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 22:26 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > > > >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind > > of logic: > > (snip switching on hardware type) > > > It should be: > > just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,.... > > Yup, but to do that on Dell hardware is basically impossible. It'd be > nice if they implemented the ACPI video extension properly for future > hardware.
it'd also be nice if the linux-ready firmware developer kit had a test for this, so that we can offer 1) a way to test this to the bios guys and 2) encourage adding/note the lack easily > -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.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
