[Intel-gfx] New Samsung driver for backlight control.

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Aug 26 18:34:57 CEST 2009


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:41:15AM +0100, Mike Lothian wrote:
> 
> Also the previous driver felt like it had finer grained control I also
> think the maximum brightness setting was brighter too

Yes, it did have finer granularity (0-255), vs. 0-7.

The brightest value should be identical, but 0 will not turn off the
light, that is on purpose.  Turns out that people don't like their
screens to be turned off when booting :)

thanks,

greg k-h



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