On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 01:37:00PM -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-28 at 15:59 +0100, Sylvain Defresne wrote: > > Hello, > > > > In 2006 a property laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware was added to > > HAL [1] to inform client of different handling of the bightness > > control key by the BIOS (some BIOSes forward the event to the > > userspace, some handle them directly, some both handle them and > > forward them to userspace).
The kernel now sends appropriate information to userspace to allow it to respond appropriately. > The brightness control should be internally routed in the kernel to be a > DRM output property, which the X server then proxies through as a RANDR > output property. DeviceKit doesn't get involved here, just make the > kernel do the right thing. I'd disagree with this. It ought to be exposed as a backlight class device, for consistency with everything else. The server may want to then expose it as a RANDR property. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
