Re: brightness control on thinkpad t61p

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On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:06:53AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> Is there a *real* technical reason why we can't just round to the nearest?
> That will work well with any firmware, and it will not remove functionality
> from any box, while at the same time plugging the current issues nicely.

Yes. Software makes the assumption that writing a value larger than the 
current value will result in the value increasing, which isn't 
necessarily true if you round it.

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