On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 07:10:20PM -0700, Sean Kellogg wrote: > In accordance with the suggestion that I take my question to "the mailing > list" I wanted to let the fine developers of powersave know that there is > something 'off' with the powersave daemon as relates to the brightness on my > laptop. (oh, a pun...)
Good. It is just much easier to discuss the stuff here. First question: what distribution are you running and what kernel and powersave version? > Running 'powersave -K' and 'powersave -L' produced the same output: > Brightness not supported. Ok, so somehow the brightness driver in powersaved does not know your machine. > Now, it's not a big deal by anymeans, but I know SOMEONE has figured out how > to get it to work, because I was able to control the brightness when I used > klaptop (or whatever it's called). While it isn't nearly as good as > powersave+kpowersave, it was nice to be able to dim the laptop when away from > an outlet. > > Also, I was instructed to "submit a patch," which I'd love to do... but my > skills lie in the realm of web development, not acpi control :) But I am :-)) > glad to provide any logs or readouts or whatever might be useful. Is the toshiba_acpi module loaded? If yes, does a directory /proc/acpi/toshiba show up? If yes, please post the output of "cd /proc/acpi/toshiba; grep -r . ." -- Stefan Seyfried \ "I didn't want to write for pay. I QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices \ wanted to be paid for what I write." SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg \ -- Leonard Cohen _______________________________________________ powersave-devel mailing list [email protected] http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/powersave-devel
