Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:26:15 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.6.18-mm2] acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver |
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On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote:
> >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind > of logic:
(snip switching on hardware type)
> It should be: > just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,....
Yup, but to do that on Dell hardware is basically impossible. It'd be nice if they implemented the ACPI video extension properly for future hardware.
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