Story of a laptop user

[Adrian Chadd]

Well, the trick is to tie it in with whatever other fondling the intel
xorg stuff is doing, so things don't clash.

How's linux do this? Is there an intel backlight control kernel module for this?

-a


On 5 February 2014 12:19, Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com> wrote:
> 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