Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-13 Thread Rajesh Murthy
Subject: Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness Hi, I use https://github.com/jcs/intel_backlight_fbsd to change the display brightness of my XPS. Maybe have a look at that. Cheers, Jan On 01/11, Paul Swanson wrote: > Ted, thanks for those tips. > > I'll

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-13 Thread Jan Schreiber
Hi, I use https://github.com/jcs/intel_backlight_fbsd to change the display brightness of my XPS. Maybe have a look at that. Cheers, Jan On 01/11, Paul Swanson wrote: > Ted, thanks for those tips. > > I'll get stuck into it and report back once I've made some progress. > > Paul Swanson >

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-11 Thread Paul Swanson
Ted, thanks for those tips. I'll get stuck into it and report back once I've made some progress. Paul Swanson Sent from ProtonMail, encrypted email based in Switzerland. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, January 11, 2019 7:28 PM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Paul Swanson wrote: > > > $

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-11 Thread Ted Unangst
Paul Swanson wrote: > $ wsconsctl display.brightness=5 > display.brightness -> 5.00% > > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm wondering > why it's not playing nice like on the Lenovo / ThinkPads. > > Below is my dmesg and also Xorg.0.log. > "DELLABC6" at acpi0 not

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-11 Thread Ted Unangst
Paul Swanson wrote: > I'd like to chase this up a bit further and see if there's anything I can do > to > improve support on this model; Ubuntu has great support so I can perhaps look > for there for ideas and inspiration. > > Ted, do you have any suggestions for what parts of OpenBSD I should

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Swanson
Hi Ted, Thanks for your email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, January 10, 2019 10:09 AM, Ted Unangst wrote: > Paul Swanson wrote: > > > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm > > wondering > > why it's not playing nice like on the Lenovo /

Re: Backlight on Dell Laptop not adjusting brightness

2019-01-09 Thread Ted Unangst
Paul Swanson wrote: > This laptop is essentially all Intel Skylake under the hood some I'm wondering > why it's not playing nice like on the Lenovo / ThinkPads. There's no guarantee that the screen backlight is actually wired to the graphics chip and not just some acpi buttons. :( > I'd really