On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:19:12 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> 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? > I use this tool: http://www.xs4all.nl/~bsamwel/laptop_mode/tools/ that automagically fires up whenever needed $ cat /etc/laptop-mode/batt-start/brightness #!/bin/sh echo -n CHOOSE_A_LOW_VALUE > /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness and $ cat /etc/laptop-mode/batt-stop/brightness #!/bin/sh let val="`</proc/acpi/sony/brightness_default` - 1" echo -n "$val" > /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness But I seldom use my laptop in battery mode. > 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? > I think the new gnome-power-manager does it, but I'm not sure since I use Xfce. > Thanks. Thank you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
