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Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:48:24 -0500
From: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
       len.brown@intel.com, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, gelma@gelma.net,
       ismail@pardus.org.tr
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
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On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:39:08PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > umm, OK, but now how do I adjust my screen brightness? ;)
> > 
> > I assume that cute userspace applications for controlling backlight
> > brightness via the generic backlight driver either exist or are in
> > progress?  What is the status of that?
> 
> For Dell laptops, the dellLcdBrightness app is included in the
> libsmbios-bin package (http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ and
> http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/yum.html for the yum repo).  It's
> entirely userspace.

Which is to say, if a system-agnostic userspace app exists, please
advise, as we'd like to incorporate dellLcdBrightness functionality
into it.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Software Architect
Dell Linux Solutions linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux
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