[Openchrome-users] Brightness/contrast controls?

[Andrei Formiga]

On 5/1/07, Gonzalo A. de la Vega <gadelavega at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'll share my experience FWIW (I'm a telecom engineer, so my programming
> sucks)
> I had a similar problem with my laptop's display, and I ended up "hard"
> conding the contrast/brightnes correction into the driver.

That's precisely what I'm thinking about doing, for the time being. I
can't wait until the right way is in place. Did you do it for the
openchrome drivers? Any pointers for where I should start looking to
play with this? Thanks.

> I found no
> "comfortable" way of using any X interface to apply a proper colormap (which
> I believe would be the correct way of doing it), every time I tried to
> change the colormap, X complained about me trying to write read only data.
> I understand the solution would be a driver specific thing, but I don't know
> how to do this without violating all the X programming rules.
>
> Gonzalo A. de la Vega

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[]s, Andrei Formiga