LCD brightness capability question

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Tue Apr 18 00:30:17 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 08:36 +0200, Jan Jockusch wrote:
> Hello again Richard, thanks for the quick reply!

n/p.

> > You want to look
> > at /usr/share/hal/scripts/hal-system-lcd-set-brightness, although you do
> > need some stuff in acpi.c to pick up the type and add the correct
> > capability. I can help you with this.
> 
> Thought so... looking at the script alone seemed like a waste of time, since
> I didn't know the source of the environment variables controlling it.

Sure.
<snip>

> Thanks again for your help! If there's any code I should test, I'll be happy to
> check out CVS and/or patch my current source (debian package 0.5.7).

Can you try the attached patch please. It was created using HEAD, but
should apply to 0.5.7 cleanly.

If it's successful then things should just work, and the laptop_panel
capability should be seen in hal-device-manager and gnome-power-manager.

Richard.
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