Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:11:40 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Brightness change on notebook that follow ACPI specification (par. B.7) Message-ID: <201003301011.40215.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4BB170E7.3030407@obluda.cz> References: <4BB170E7.3030407@obluda.cz>
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On Monday 29 March 2010 11:32:55 pm Dan Lukes wrote: > > Most notebooks have special keys (mostly Fn+something) to change > brightness of LCD display. > > Some of them (my notebok, for example) follows the ACPI specification > (paragraph B.7) how to announce the user request for brightness change > to OS. > > I implemented such handling as part of acpi-video module. > > It's verified to work on my HP Mini 5101 & FreeBSD 8.0. > > No test on other notebook done as I have no other notebook. A patch to implement the brightness controls was already committed to HEAD a while ago and have already been merged to 8-stable and 7-stable. Can you test the a kernel from 8-stable to ensure it works ok on your machine? The patches in HEAD work fine on an HP Mini 2140 that I have here. -- John Baldwin
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