[ltp] TPDimmer

Stefan Schmidt linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:32:06 +0200


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Hello.

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 17:38, Bill Sheppard wrote:
> Alfredo Matos wrote:
> >
> > I've put together a little app, written in C, that dims the LCD after an
> > inactivity period. This is a little feature that i've seen on macs, that
> > i like, specially since it saves some battery.
> > The code requires libxss (with the headers to build from source).
> I can run it and get feedback regarding the command line options I used,
> but don't get any fading.  Does it require a particular version of
> tp_smapi?  I can only run up to 0.08 due to running kernel 2.6.11...

Just a quick-shot. Do you have /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness? You need to
load the ibm-acpi module to load with experimental=1 for it.

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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