[Intel-gfx] BACKLIGHT property for KMS case

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 03:03:46AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:37:02PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> 
> > It seems that HAL / gnome-display-manager, or something in that area,
> > wants to see only 8 different levels, otherwise you need to write a
> > custom script for it to use.  So be aware of this, I just changed the
> > samsung-backlight driver to use 0 - 7 to keep from having to do this.
> 
> The generic backlight addon should cope fine - I've got 0-10 here, and 
> nouveau exposes something like 2^16 (gpm chooses a sensible number of 
> steps in that case). Are you running an ancient version of hal?

I didn't think I was, whatever is in Moblin 2.0 these days :)

thanks,

greg k-h