On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Mattia Dongili wrote: > well this is actually hardware driven, the brightness_default in > sony-laptop only exposes a DSDT method to set this value. > So it's actually one more feature, not a software trick :) > I admit the attribute could be better named 'poweron_brightness'. ThinkPads can also do this, if we keep their CMOS up-to-date (which we do, currently). The solution taken by ibm-acpi is to set the power-on brightness at every brighness change, so the machine powers up in the last state it was left in. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - 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