On 8/1/09, Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Danny Kukawka<danny.kukawka@xxxxxx> wrote: >> On Samstag, 1. August 2009, Corentin Chary wrote: >>> Maybe just *:kbd_backlight . The naming scheme is vendor:color:name >>> The problem is that hald-addon-generic-kbd-backlight is not merged >>> upstream. >>> >>> So, hal mailing list is now CC'ed >>> Is there any plan to merge hald-addon-generic-kbd-backlight ? >>> Patch can be found here: >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2008-October/012361.html >> >> This patch is not needed. There is a generic addon for the leds subsystem >> in >> HAL. >> >> Check out: >> http://people.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal-spec-git/hal-spec.html#interface-device-leds >> >> If there is any problem with this addon, let me know. >> >> Danny > > It seems there is also a KeyboardBacklight interface which is what we > want, but I didn't find how to use it > without an addon (like addon-macbookpro-backlight). But if you look at the methods, they are exactly the same, right? I think the idea is to use an FDI file to match our LED device (or possibly create it as a hal device... I'm still really fuzzy on hal), and then mark it as having the "keyboard_backlight" capability. > Summary of the thread: > Asus U50 provide a keyboard backlight, I didn't know how to expose > that to userspace. > Matthew told me that in Apples, the SMC driver expose the keyboard > backlight as a led. > Then Alan found hald-addon-generic-kbd-backlight to plug the led subsystem > and > org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight interface. > > What we want to do is change the brightness when KEY_KBDILLUM* is pressed. > > I believe that we need a keyboard backlight addon that respond to > KEY_KBDILLUM* > and update the corresponding /sys/class/vendor:color:kbd_backlight. Oops, thats not the addons job. It's for something like the gnome power manager. It looks like g-p-m already picks up the device with a "keyboard_backlight" capability, and react to keyboard brightness key events. Regards Alan -- 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
