Vita Batrla wrote: > Another comments: > > - some laptops do not allow changing LCD brightness via ACPI in graphics > mode (e.g. due to graphics driver). So I wonder if you could provide > some command line API to do this? Gnome applet will not save a user of > such laptop.
This case is for laptops that support ACPI methods to change brightness only. > > - on some laptops, you need to do various tricks to read Fn key events and > such laptops will likely need extra driver. How can one from this > unbundled module bind keypress to e.g. change LCD brightness? Assume > that there is no ACPI event for brightness up/down. Shouldn't we > provide kernel API as well? This support is for laptops that support ACPI hotkeys only. I'm aware of some of the issues with laptops that don't support ACPI fully and this case doesn't handle those issues. There may be future work to support laptops that don't support ACPI fully, but that will be another project. Phi
