[ltp] Display brightness

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:10:15 -0300


On Mon, 03 Mar 2008, Joerg Platte wrote:
> Am Montag, 3. März 2008 schrieb Henrique de Moraes Holschuh:
> > Does it manage to change brightness even when you don't have thinkpad-acpi
> > loaded (i.e. is it doing things directly to the NVRAM)?
> 
> Without thinkpad_acpi kpowersave is not able to change the brightness. 
> Furthermore, KDE no longer reports brightness changes. Looks like KDE depends 
> on the thinkpad_acpi API instead of changing values directly somewhere in 
> NVRAM.

Hmm, load thinkpad-acpi with brightness_enable=0.  That will give you the
hotkeys, but no backlight interface.  What happens then?

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  Henrique Holschuh