Ted, thanks for those tips. I'll get stuck into it and report back once I've made some progress.
Paul Swanson Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Friday, January 11, 2019 7:28 PM, Ted Unangst <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul Swanson wrote: > > > $ wsconsctl display.brightness=5 > > display.brightness -> 5.00% > > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm > > wondering > > why it's not playing nice like on the Lenovo / ThinkPads. > > Below is my dmesg and also Xorg.0.log. > > "DELLABC6" at acpi0 not configured > > "DELLABCE" at acpi0 not configured > > "INT3400" at acpi0 not configured > > acpivideo0 at acpi0: GFX0 > > acpivout0 at acpivideo0: LCD_ > > I went back and reread this. In theory, acpivout should support backlight > control. That's another place to look and see what's really happening.
