13.02.2014 04:26, David Herrmann wrote:
The "attach" stuff actually sounds doable, but who decides which one to attach? You still need some user-space script during device-plug for that. But to be honest, the simplest way would be a "backlightd" bus-activatable daemon. SetBacklight() then takes a DRM-connector and brightness-value, which the daemon looks up in /sys and sets.. This has the advantage that we can do any fancy matching in user-space. We can provide quirks (maybe even via udev-hwdb) and other helpers for weird setups.
What would be done with Samsung monitors (like an old SyncMaster 770P) that have a DVI connection, no physical buttons and have to be controlled via DDC-CI? Currently, ddccontrol works (via /dev/i2c-*), but only from root. I would like this use case to be covered in such a way that it could work both in Xorg and in Wayland, and, if possible, without races related to i2c usage from the kernel and from userspace.
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