Brightness control in FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE

[Adrian Chadd]

Which hardware is this? :)


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On 20 May 2015 at 06:11, Avinash Sonawane <rootkea at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD titanic.rootkea.me 10.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.1-RELEASE #0
> r274401: Tue Nov 11 21:02:49 UTC 2014
> root at releng1.nyi.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> My brightness control keys don't work. When I press "Decrease
> brightness" key nothing happens whereas when I press "Increase
> brightness" key the continuous string of . (dot) appears on the
> application running in foreground.
>
> I tried `kldload acpi_video` but then when I tried to decrease the
> brightness at first nothing happened and the suddenly brightness
> dropped to minimum. Then when I tried to increase the brightness to
> normal by pressing "Increase brightness" key the system went to reboot
> automatically.
>
> So how do I control the brightness of my FreeBSD box?
>
> --
> Avinash Sonawane (RootKea)
> PICT, Pune
> http://rootkea.wordpress.com
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