Story of a laptop user

[Eitan Adler]

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Eitan Adler wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> Try (if I'm reading your dump correctly):
>>>
>>> _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM
>>> _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM
>>> _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM
>>>
>>> .. god I wish we had a way to actually just dump the tree in a useful
>>> fashion to inspect what objects there are.
>>>
>>> Anyway, do the acpi_call hacks to various nodes that have _BCM in them
>>> and see if setting any of them changes your brightness.
>>
>>
>> Nothing here changed the screen brightness. If you have another
>> suggestion i'd be happy to try it.
>
>
> Not ACPI, but maybe a way that will work:
> https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=44146&p=249316

That 'worked' in the sense that the program 'intel_backlight' changed
the visible backlight.  However, I'd still love to tie this
functionality in with the brightness keys on the keyboard.

Thanks for the info!


-- 
Eitan Adler