please add IBM brightness fix to upstream fdi file

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Feb 13 13:38:25 PST 2007


On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 20:01 +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> according to bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/81407 the
> hal-0.5.8.1/fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-laptop-panel-mgmt-policy.fdi
> needs
> to match all IBM ThinkPad models to make the brightness keys work. i
> added a trivial patch to the ubuntu package which i think should go
> upstream, its attached to this mail...

I think discussing with DavidZ before (IIRC) that some thinkpads do have
manual brightness control and that we had to be careful blacklisting
them.

Plus, you guys should really switch to using hal-info for Feisty. :-)

Richard.




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