Dimming a laptop's backlight when idle

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 09:39:04AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:

> other laptops. Btw, I do wonder if the X.org server should provide this
> interface instead.

Possibly, though there's the problem that backlight control is generally 
manufacturer-specific rather than chipset-specific. X.org doesn't really 
have any infrastructure to deal with that right now, AFAIK.

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