[Q] Software control of LCD backlight?

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/11/07, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:06:22PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > Unless we want to expose the full list of ddc/ci monitor controls via
> > randr, randr  would just be providing the i2c interface.  the control
> > would all be done trough a lib and some other app like ddccontrol or
> > whatever. that lib could then have a back end for the randr interface
> > and the usb one.
>
> I'd like to expose them as properties, instead of making apps do the
> properties.  If we need crazy monitor-specific crap, we can just extend
> the server's EDID quirks table.  However, in the future, we could punt
> things like this to HAL.
>

Would it be better to abstract monitors in randr or just add/remove
them as output properties?

Alex