LCD hardware fading

[Richard Hughes]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 11:58 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 14:23 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > To stop an un-maintainable list of laptops growing in g-p-m, and for
> > easy debugging, I propose a laptop_panel.hardware_fade (bool) key that
> > would signify if the LCD panel hardware has a hardware dimmer.
> 
> How about just fixing the kernel drivers to not fade for these bastards
> instead? If that is possible (at least my powerbook under OS X can do
> this without fading), that's what we ought to be doing.

How do you disable the fading? I was under the impression that this was
done by hardware attached to the lcd backlight, rather than the kernel
doing anything remotely clever.

Richard.