[Intel-gfx] Legacy backlight control with KMS and BACKLIGHT property

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Tue Aug 18 23:51:27 CEST 2009


On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:41:03 +0100
Mike Lothian <mike at fireburn.co.uk> wrote:
> You are an absolute STAR Greg!!!
> 
> Finally I have brightness control for this laptop on Linux
> 
> I needed to set the DMI names to "R510/P510" and the pci device to
> 0x2a42 but apart from that it works!!!
> 
> Now I just have to get the keys working :D

Any chance I could get you to test this patch out?  It should add an
"i915-backlight" interface to sysfs instead, but hopefully will work
similarly otherwise...

Thanks,
-- 
Jesse Barnes, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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