Hi, as I hinted in another post there is a program called NVClock to tweak some settings on NVidia graphics cards. This also has an option to control the backlight brightness on a number of notebooks with NVidia graphics cards. I added an (Open)Solaris backend to have brightness control on my Sony Vaio AW11Z. The patch is on the way to the author of NVClock. For now I also have the source at http://149.203.91.65/~markgraf/nvclock_0.8b4_opensolaris.tar.gz So I invite all interested folks to try it out and give me some feedback on the stuff I wrote. NVClock/smartdimmer need to be run as privilegded user to access the PCI stuff. I guess there is room for improvement here ;-)
Though I haven't found a way to use this with the "special keys" on the notebook yet, the cli is much better than no dimming. (battery runtime went up by ~1h when dimmed down to 15%) Could one talk NVidia into adding support for backlight control into their drivers? Bernd -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
