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Message-ID: <20061002004824.GB18707@lists.us.dell.com> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:48:24 -0500 From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, len.brown@...el.com, jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de, gelma@...ma.net, ismail@...dus.org.tr Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:39:08PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > umm, OK, but now how do I adjust my screen brightness? ;) > > > > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight > > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in > > progress? What is the status of that? > > For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the > libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and > http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo). It's > entirely userspace. Which is to say, if a system-agnostic userspace app exists, please advise, as we'd like to incorporate dellLcdBrightness functionality into it. Thanks, Matt -- Matt Domsch Software Architect Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux Linux on Dell mailing lists @ http://lists.us.dell.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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