[Intel-gfx] BACKLIGHT property for KMS case

[Matthias Hopf]

On Aug 18, 09 12:06:08 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:37:17AM +0200, Matthias Hopf wrote:
> > IMHO the sanest would be to define 1 to be the minimum brightness and 0
> > to switch the light off completely.
> There's the "power" field in the backlight class to turn it on or off, 
> but 0 isn't well defined in terms of whether it's off or minimum 
> brightness.

I tried to use that on an hp netbook here, but somehow this had no
effect.
Anyway, I'd like to use the "0 is off, 1 is minimum" semantics in the
RandR properties - we'd probably have to do some magic in the driver.

power is only allowed to have 0 and 1 as values?

Matthias

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