ambient light sensor for dell latitude

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 04:20:38PM +0100, Nicolò Chieffo wrote:
> Hello I own a dell latitude E6400. It has an ambient light sensor
> (A-L-S)  built in, which is available through the smbios API (which is
> common to all dell laptops having a A-L-S).
> I can control it using a simple C binary build on top of the smbios
> API. With it you can enable and disable it. Is it possible to
> integrate it with hal and then possibly with gnome-power-manager?

It is, but it'd be nice to add it to the dell-laptop driver in a similar 
way to the support in the Apple SMC driver. Is the ALS code available 
somewhere?

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