On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> > > On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seems
> > > to be the same thing the intel X driver does) is:
> > >
> > > # setpci -d 8086:2a02 0xf4=0xff
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> > On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seems
> > to be the same thing the intel X driver does) is:
> >
> > # setpci -d 8086:2a02 0xf4=0xff
> > # setpci -d 8086:2a02 0xf4=0x80
>
> Yi
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seems
> to be the same thing the intel X driver does) is:
>
> # setpci -d 8086:2a02 0xf4=0xff
> # setpci -d 8086:2a02 0xf4=0x80
Yikes! If you are going to do that, it is better to j
Jim Paris wrote:
> On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seems
> to be the same thing the intel X driver does) is:
Wacky! :-D
I've also figured out that the following works, and doesn't require root
access:
% xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT ###
where "##
Ben Liblit wrote:
> For extra annoyance, xbacklight is not packaged by Fedora 8, the distro
> I run. So if I blacklist video.ko and load thinkpad_acpi.ko with
> brightness_enable=0, I have no backlight control whatsoever. :-(
On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seem
For extra annoyance, xbacklight is not packaged by Fedora 8, the distro
I run. So if I blacklist video.ko and load thinkpad_acpi.ko with
brightness_enable=0, I have no backlight control whatsoever. :-(
Even if I did have some way to control the backlight, I'm not sure how
I'd trigger it. I'm
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> > You will need acpi handlers, yes. I wish I knew how to ask the kernel "is
> > the current VT a text console, or a X video port?", but I have
> > no idea how to do that.
>
> >From userspace, I think this does the trick:
>
>#include
>int fd, arg;
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Maybe video.ko will be able to be told not to react to the events, and just
> report them AND export the backlight interface to userspace. That would fix
> the issues people have currently (when they are caused by bad userspace
> configuration, usually by distr
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> Thanks for the update. Is there anything else that 2.6.25 will
> provide, or is telling it not to handle brightness the only
It is too early to tell...
> improvement? If that's all, I don't see how that's an improvement
> over what I'm currently doing by
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> > Sorry to revive an old topic from 3-4 weeks ago, but I just got my X61
> > this past week and so I missed my chance to chime in. And, as far as
> > I can tell, Ben ended with "I'm pretty lost by now". Was a decent
> >
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> Sorry to revive an old topic from 3-4 weeks ago, but I just got my X61
> this past week and so I missed my chance to chime in. And, as far as
> I can tell, Ben ended with "I'm pretty lost by now". Was a decent
> solution ever found? If not, where can I cod
Hi all,
Sorry to revive an old topic from 3-4 weeks ago, but I just got my X61
this past week and so I missed my chance to chime in. And, as far as
I can tell, Ben ended with "I'm pretty lost by now". Was a decent
solution ever found? If not, where can I code to help? :)
In my tests, the only
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