[PATCH] HAL Keymap Quirks: hal-info keyboard support for BenQ R22e

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 30.07.07 16:05, Richard Hughes (hughsient at gmail.com) wrote:

> 
> On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 17:00 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > > I guess this one of the cases where the brightness level may be
> > > queried from the hadrware via some special driver and the keypress
> > > event is basically just a notification for the software that the
> > > brightness has changed and that the software should read the new
> > > brightness from the hardware and possibly show a nice OSD gauge when
> > > it changed from what was read previously.
> 
> Any idea on how to query the hardware?

I don't but maybe Paul has?

Maybe ACPI implements the brightness methods? Or maybe the laptop has
a modern graphics card where X11 can control this by going through the
graphics hardware? 

Lennart

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