LCD Brightness control via sysctl..

[Daniel O'Connor]

I tried the acpi-vid patch earlier and have now updated my kernel to grab the 
committed version, but I still don't see any brightness sysctls :(

I don't understand how I can have a .active entry for a display but 
no .brightness (after looking at the code).

sysctl hw.acpi.video returns ->
hw.acpi.video.tv0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.crt0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.out0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.active: 0
hw.acpi.video.out1.active: 0

This is on a Dell Inspiron 8600 with an nVidia GeForce FX Go5200 with the 
nvidia binary driver.

Does anyone have any other experiences WRT brightness controls? Thanks.

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