Re: Ambient Light Sensor?

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On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:41:41PM -0400, Len Brown wrote:
 > Has anybody seen ACPI-based ambient light sensor support on a commercial system?
 > 
 > You'd recognize it by a device with PNPid ACPI0008 exported via the AML device tree.
 > 
 > I've seen it on an Intel Capell Valley CRB, but I was wondering
 > if anybody is using it in the "real world" yet.
 > 
 > I've seen just the dmesg from a MacBook Pro on the web
 > suggesting that system exports ACPI0008:
 > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0703.0/1475.html

Right. Under OSX, it uses it to adjust the keyboard backlight.
(It may also do something fancy wrt gamma correction with the
 built-in webcam)

	Dave

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