[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