[PATCH][RFC] Backlight addon for dell laptops

[Erik Andrén]

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Hi.

David Zeuthen wrote:
> 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?
> 

libsmbios is licensed under gpl 2 or any later version
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/Smi_8cpp-source.html

It is available for Debian:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=smbios&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all

Ubuntu:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=libsmbios&searchon=names&subword=1&version=edgy&release=all

Suse:
http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libsmbios&submit=Search+...

Redhat:
http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html

Take care
Erik

>      David
> 
> 
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