-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:55:37 +0000 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sunday 04 November 2007 19:55:40 Erik Andr?n wrote: > > To make a long story short, I've hacked up a kernel module that dumps > > the EC > > For acer_acpi, we have a Perl script that can do this from userspace (but > it should run on any other machine, since there's nothing Acer specific > about dumping the EC registers). > > http://aceracpi.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/acer_ec/acer_ec.pl > > ./acer_ec.pl regs > > (ACPI throws a few warnings in dmesg, because we're stepping on it's turf > a bit here, but it's far simpler than having to write a kernel module > just to get a few registers). > Awesome! I found the EC register for changing the backlight on my laptop using acer_ec.pl. Register 0xE2 - Set screen brightness to <value> Min: 0x00 Max: unknown Windows Brightness key Min: 0x14 Max: 0x5F Register 0xE3 - Fade out screen brightness from <value> This is for HP dv6535ep laptop which should be similar to any other HP laptop in the 6xxx series. I'll look at other backlight drivers if I can do something.. > > -Carlos > -- > E-Mail: carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Web: strangeworlds.co.uk > GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D > - > 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 Thanks!!! - -- Angelo Arrifano AKA MiKNiX CSE Student at UBI, Portugal Gentoo Linux AMD64 Arch Tester miknix@xxxxxxxxx http://miknix.homelinux.com PGP Pubkey online - - - The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing. -- Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHL2gzNahyoD2SuwsRAnqXAKCcWxVvXy4AudRvRPgqkYn8Oybo4wCffpn5 NkU/v5/HZFgqYc0GhEBzGi4= =uPxz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - 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
