LCD hardware fading

[David Zeuthen]

On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 12:09 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 17:03 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > How do you disable the fading? I was under the impression that this was
> > done by hardware attached to the lcd backlight, rather than the kernel
> > doing anything remotely clever.
> 
> For IBM just look at the "cleverness" in ibm-acpi.c:brightness_write() -
> the patch should be simple to write. Hopefully upstream will take it...

FYI I've submitted a patch for this on LKML

 http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/29/96/index.html

    David