Re: Management of backlight
>> On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended
>> up with was a completely dark screen for my login prompt.
>> I was blindly able to go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and do a
>> rm *pmu* and then reboot.
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> I'm trying to figure out the best way to expose this to userland
> though. I think I'll simply expose the PMU and Cuda i2c busses
> via the linux i2c framework and write a userland cmdline tool
> to access those parameters.
Whatever is done, the user shouldn't get stuck needing
to know if they need pmud or i2c stuff. This is especially
important if the wrong choice leads to an unusable console.
Choosing at installation is poor, since hardware may change.
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