No BACKLIGHT for

[Matthias Clasen]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 7:21 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28 April 2010 11:19, Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr> wrote:
>>  What do we do on systems with drivers that don't support randr 1.2?  Pretty
>>  much all systems with a backlight control use the kernel backlight interface.
>
> Sure, but how many open drivers don't support RANDR 1.2? And how many
> of those have chipsets in common laptops?


I think the answer to that has to be that the expectations for X
drivers are rising, too.
A desktop without randr 1.2 is a degraded experience already, and that
is not going to change.