please add IBM brightness fix to upstream fdi file

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Feb 15 12:07:29 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 14:48 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> 
> I'm unsure what Thinkpads these are? Does anyone know? Also, Richard,
> what's the risk of setting brightness_in_hardware to TRUE assuming the
> laptop don't do brightness in hardware?

No harm, if this is set then g-p-m just reads the new brightness from
hal rather than try to set the brightness.

Worst case scenario is that the brightness button that used to work stop
working.

Richard.




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