[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops
David Zeuthen
david at fubar.dk
Thu Jan 4 11:11:13 PST 2007
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 22:08 +0100, Erik Andrén wrote:
> I've developed an addon for hal, making it possible to control the AC
> and the battery backlight values for Dell laptops using SMBIOS.
That's pretty cool, it's nice to control the backlight via software,
thanks for looking into this.
> My first approach was to try to emulate the work the c++ libsmbios
> library developed by Dell did in C. I quickly discovered that the code
> got quite messy and thus I decided to abandon this approach in favor of
> linking against the libsmbios library.
It's libsmbios free and open source software? Do many vendors (which
ones?) ship it?
David
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