[PATCH] Fix Omnibook LCD brightness levels

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Wed Jan 10 14:51:34 PST 2007


On Tuesday 09 January 2007 23:22, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-09 at 15:42 +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > reportedly [1] the Omnibook LCD panel has 11 brightness levels, not 8.
>
> I think some omnibook hardware has 11 states, and some has 8. 

No, I don't think so. The docu say clearly: "The value of LCD brightness must 
be betwenn 0 and 10."

And the code of the kernel module say IMO the same.

> I think we need to either convince the omnibook developers to use the kernel
> backlight class, or ready the proper max value.

A integration into the kernel sysfs would be nice, but since there nothing 
happend for this modules since nearly one year ...

Danny


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