[ltp] Adjusting display brightness

Jiang Qian linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 19 Nov 2005 16:14:47 -0500


Do you have ibm-acpi modules? take a look at /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness.
Works for me for version 0.11.
Jiang

 On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:10:59PM +0100, Felix E. Klee wrote:
> I've a T41 with a Radeon 9000.  Is it somehow possible to adjust display 
> brightness from within LINUX (i.e. not with the obvious FN key 
> combinations)?
> 
> Unfortunately, AFAICS things don't look too bright: ;-)
> 
>   > cat /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness
>     <not supported>
> 
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