Re: Permission for 'dev/pmu'
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 09:03:33AM +0100, Sjoerd Simons wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 03:17:22AM +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > just kill this warning. Debian works just fine without backlight
> > > control on both my ibook and the g5. And it's really not worth giving
> > > hardware control to an unadited GUI program.
> >
> > Having been trying various ways to fix this for a number of days, I'm slowly
> > coming to the conclusion that the best option for Debian would be to purge all
> > of ACME's Powerbook-specific LCD control code out of the way.
> >
> > If upstream ever gets around cleaning up this code to use safer, more generic
> > methods, such as doing everything via 'pmud' then we could reintroduce it.
> >
> > Any objection?
>
> Just change the code to a g_warning instead of a dialog and stop whining? I
> personally use this code and so do many others, so removing it isn't an
> option..
Ah, you use it and you didn't come to fixing it ? This has been a problema
since >6 month.
I would be very interested in knowing how you did solve the error message
issue in a secure and acceptable for inclusion in the release way.
> Hal 0.6 will have generic methods to do the lcd brightness stuff and many other
> cool things, which gnome will probably start using in due time..
Sounds cool.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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