[Q] Software control of LCD backlight?
Xavier Bestel
xavier.bestel at free.fr
Fri Aug 10 07:26:36 PDT 2007
On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 09:05 -0500, Pat Kane wrote:
> Is it possible to vary the intensity of the backlight on
> modern LCD panels (e.g. Dell 17'') from software
> such as the X server?
Yes, there is http://ddccontrol.sourceforge.net/ which should do it.
This kind of thing should be handled by RandR imho, but apparently the
monitors don't follow a common spec.
Xav
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