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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RESEND] Add Dell laptop backlight brightness display
On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:34:31AM -0600, Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com wrote:
> You can get and set laptop brighness on Dell with the proper SMI call.

Oh, heavens. Could you people (and here I include pretty much everyone
who manufactures laptops) please (please!) just implement the ACPI video
extension? We're going to end up having to ship a 200K library for
each and every laptop manufacturer who's decided to implement basic
functionality in a proprietary manner, and it's going to make me cry.

(Which SMI do I need for brightness control? The libsmbios docs seem to
be remarkably quiet on what functionality is actually available, and I'm
not keen on calling things randomly :))

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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