[PATCH] Add iMac backlight addon

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Thu Mar 13 12:41:43 PDT 2008


On Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007, Martin Szulecki wrote:
> On my way to control the hardcore radioactive backlight of the newer
> iMac 24" aluminum models some older code from the mactel guys appeared
> to work (while the brightness level range lacks on the 24" but is good
> on the 20" ones, compared to Mac OS).
>
> I glued a patch which exposes the control like the other Macbook and
> Macbook Pro addons. People reported that it apparently also worked on
> other iMac models which I added to the corresponding fdi.
>
> With the lately upstreamed hid patches to support the new aluminum apple
> keyboard (really nice!) one can control the backlight of the display
> nicely.

Commited the patch to git master.

Danny


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