Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:29:00 +0000 From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@gmail.com> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Daniel Lannstrom <op@trekdanne.se> Subject: Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight Message-ID: <224440FC-D2A2-4EE6-A4DB-CCB43F1DCDB4@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090128134309.GN17198@hoeg.nl> References: <20090127124137.46fcfac5@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> <20090127150040.GA4333@haruhi> <20090128134309.GN17198@hoeg.nl>
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On 28 Jan 2009, at 13:43, Ed Schouten wrote: > * Daniel Lannstrom <op@trekdanne.se> wrote: >>> I'm asking which method will be the best to interface the driver >>> with >>> userland applications? >> >> You might want to make it a character device driver. And write a >> small >> userland control program. Sysctl isn't really made for this kind of >> functionality. > > No. sysctl is good for doing stuff like this. An even better approach > would be to integrate it to the X11 driver, but I guess it will be > cold > day in hell when this happens. Not really. The xorg intel driver is already able to deal with this. I don't know about NVIDIA. -- Rui Paulo
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