Re: acpi_ibm Thinkpad x260 does not work for screen brightness

On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 5:53 AM Ramiro Aceves <ea1abz@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, I share the answer I have received on Reddit:
>
> "Setting brightness through acpi\_ibm sysctl no longer works for me on
> FreeBSD 14 as well, but there's now a system program named \`backlight\`
> (not to be confused with \`xbacklight\`). It took me some time to find it
> since my backlight setup stopped working after updating 13 -> 14. Try using
> it to set brightness instead."
>
> It works fine this way. I think that it should be documented in acpi_ibm
> man page.
>

Even if the backlight(8) utility works, I think you should file a PR if the
acpi_ibm sysctl should work.

Cheers.


>
> Regards.
> Ramiro
>
>