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Date:      Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:01:15 +0100
From:      Patrick =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Lamaizi=E8re?= <patfbsd@davenulle.org>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight
Message-ID:  <20090128230115.3a1e2871@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090128163328.GS17198@hoeg.nl>
References:  <20090127124137.46fcfac5@baby-jane.lamaiziere.net> <20090127150040.GA4333@haruhi> <20090128134309.GN17198@hoeg.nl> <71915973-47E0-4F38-AC20-221817A19C11@freebsd.org> <20090128163328.GS17198@hoeg.nl>

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Le Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:33:28 +0100,
Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> :

> > Not really. The xorg intel driver is already able to deal with this.
> > I don't know about NVIDIA.
> 
> Yes, but that's what I mean. It will be a cold day in hell when "nv"
> supports this. As far as I can tell, it's just a pile of obfuscated C
> code.

Anyway the backlight is very very high even in the console, I don't
want to use X for this, i will not be able to set it at boot-time.

Thanks for your replies, i will use both sysctl and a character device.

Regards.



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