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Date:      Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:16:43 +0100
From:      David DEMELIER <demelier.david@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Adjust your brightness via command line
Message-ID:  <AANLkTimAA5iGQ=gKvx4mFeN8A9MKzzWC9QMZTMwdNgT6@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello everyone,

I've got a laptop that cannot adjust brightness using functions keys
so I wrote a little program that use the acpi_video(4) driver and
sysctl(3).

The program adjust brightness using one arguments : up or down. Check
this example :

markand@Melon ~ $ brightness up
switching to 46
markand@Melon ~ $ sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 46
markand@Melon ~ $ brightness down
switching to 43
markand@Melon ~ $ sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 43

So if you canno't adjust brightness using function keys on your laptop
use this program with any bindkey in your window manager :

SHA256 (/www/var/srv/files/softs/brightness-0.1.tgz) =
0a44aeaedcd25f18eae3375d0b9d24bb994829b0af8b8304ecaffb6733ffbbab

http://files.malikania.fr/softs/brightness-0.1.tgz

Kind regards,

-- 
Demelier David



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