[Nouveau] backlight support

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:46:36 +0200
sebastien.brennion at googlemail.com wrote:

> I use karmic, with the already packaged 0.0.14+git20090715-0ubuntu1 from 
> nouveau...

Does that build have backlight support enabled?
It was made configurable a day before that package date in
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/nouveau/linux-2.6/commit/?id=4df79d74cf77cad4c27348b3299fb6e046883105

> I can't see any backlight information in /sys/class/backlight
> Could you tell me how it is supposed to work with nouveau ? I though the 
> driver would provide backlight information there??
> 
> I don't think to have a old hw, but I don't know what is old for devs... 
> nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GT]

That is considered quite new.

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