Re: samsung-laptop: light sensor?

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On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Alexander Holler <holler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm searching some information about how to read the values from the
> light sensor found on some Samsung laptops.
>
> Does anyone have any information about how to access the light sensor?
> If I would find such information, I would (try) to write a driver (or
> enhance samsung-laptop), at least to read the values and maybe something
> to adjust the keyboard- and/or the lcd-backlight (on startup and maybe
> dynamically at runtime).
>
> Regards,
>
> Alexander

Hello Alexander,
The light sensor can be used (on mine at least), but nobody had the
time to write (rebase) the driver for it.
Check these discussions:
http://search.gmane.org/?query=ACPI+light+sensor&group=gmane.linux.acpi.devel

Basically, it's a standard ACPI light sensor, there was a driver for
it, but it should use another subsystem, and nobody did the work so
far :). I'll happy to review if you have the time to do that.



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