Re: brightness control on thinkpad t61p

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On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:32:46PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Should we?  Why?  We lose information doing that.  Instead of a nice linear
> 0-100% brightness scale, you are now back to an 8 or 16-level non-linear
> brightness scale.

The spec makes no guarantees about what that 0-100 range means - it may 
be brightness, power consumption or bonghits. It's really not guaranteed 
to be meaningful, and the backlight class doesn't provide that guarantee 
either.

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