please add IBM brightness fix to upstream fdi file

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Feb 15 12:21:28 PST 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 20:07 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> 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.

So it seems like the right thing to apply this patch yes?

     David




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