Brightness change on notebook that follow ACPI specification (par. B.7)

[John Baldwin]

On Monday 29 March 2010 11:32:55 pm Dan Lukes wrote:
> 
> Most notebooks have special keys (mostly Fn+something) to change 
> brightness of LCD display.
> 
> Some of them (my notebok, for example) follows the ACPI specification 
> (paragraph B.7) how to announce the user request for brightness change 
> to OS.
> 
> I implemented such handling as part of acpi-video module.
> 
> It's verified to work on my HP Mini 5101 & FreeBSD 8.0.
> 
> No test on other notebook done as I have no other notebook.

A patch to implement the brightness controls was already committed to HEAD a 
while ago and have already been merged to 8-stable and 7-stable.  Can you test 
the a kernel from 8-stable to ensure it works ok on your machine?  The patches 
in HEAD work fine on an HP Mini 2140 that I have here.

-- 
John Baldwin