It depends on what the exact machine is. Try looking through the output of "sysctl hw" or "sysctl machdep" for options with "brightness", "backlight", or similar in their names.
-- Benny On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:12 AM Todd Gruhn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Unfortunately,no... > The graphics card is nVidia. > > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:36 PM RVP <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote: > > > > > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 18:28:59 -0400 > > > From: Todd Gruhn <[email protected]> > > > To: Netbsd-Users-List <[email protected]> > > > Subject: sysctl and screen brightness > > > > > > It was mentioned on a post (elsewhere) to set screen brightness > > > with the kern var "hw.acpi.acpi0.brightness" . > > > > > > I can find no such kern var. Is this possible? > > > If so then what is the correct kern var to set? > > > > > > > If you have an Intel graphics card, install the `intel-backlight' > > package, then: > > > > $ intel_backlight incr > > $ intel_backlight decr > > > > -RVP > > -- Benny
