On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:30:57PM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:58:09AM +0300, Andrey Borzenkov wrote: > > > > > - exposing two knobs for the *same* thing confuses user level tools; you never > > > know which one is used and they compete behind your back > > > > How do they compete? > > In my case user level program (kpowersave) decided to use video.ko for > brightness control (or, may be, it used them both). Which gave me 2 levels > instead of 8. And there is no way to control it, at least known to me. Right. But that doesn't mean they're competing, as such. If you set the brightness via toshiba_acpi to a value that isn't supported via the acpi driver, what value does the acpi backlight claim to be at? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
