LCD Brightness control via sysctl..

[Lukas Ertl]

On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 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).

Your DSDT is missing the relevant methods, like _BCL and _BCM.  It's the
same here, I can see which display is active, but I can't control
brightness.

regards,
le

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