Illuminated keyboard on ASUS U50VG laptop, backlight or led ?

[Corentin Chary]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 09:20:00 Corentin Chary wrote:
> >> see:
> >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~dkukawka/hal/commit/?id=c900d0e5012b1dd0e0f
> >>a6e20fd0d92a59b3de093
>
> It's not my hardware either, but I can try to create a fake
> kbd_keyboard led to test that.
>
> > Don't you also need to set "keyboard_backlight.num_levels"?  According
> > to Documentation/leds-class.txt, valid led values are 0-255, so I
> > expect num_levels should be set to 256.
>
> Valid led values are between 0 and max_brightness (like for backlight I
> think). I think the led addon should set keyboard_backlight.num_levels to
> max_brightness (+1 ?).
>
> > Yuck... I think the backlight interface is better in that it exports
> > the available granularity.  But I guess all one really wants is "on"
> > and "off", with finer adjustment being either automatic (light sensor)
> > or buried as a config option.
>
> On the Asus U50 there is 3 levels (+ off), and keys to change the
> brightness. And the user want to use all the backlight levels with the
> Fn+F3/F4 keys.

Hi Danny,
I was trying to add keyboard_backlight.num_levels support for your modified 
led-addon. But there is something I don't understand :- 
keyboard_backlight.num_levels is used in:
- examples/light_sensors_and_keyboard_backlight.py
- fdi/policy/10osvendor/10-macbookpro-utils.fdi
- kde/solid/hal/halpower.cpp
But it is not defined in doc/spec/hal-spec-properties.xml.

Should I make another patch to fix hal-spec-properties ?

Thanks,

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