Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?
On 22 Apr 2011, shawn wilson wrote:
> Might try turning on all kernel logging and look to see if there's any
> logging hook for proc, sysfs, and udev.
>
> If it is bright when you first turn the machine on and then dims, the goal
> would be to synchronize a clock with your computer (ntp?) and look at the
> time when it goes dim and see what happened at that point.
I'm not too sure about how to do those things. Any pointers?
>
> It is completely possible that your backlight function got moved into a
> more appropriate place where other utilities know about it and some
> setting is too low for you by default.
Yes, I thought of that, but I've searched through all of /sys without
coming across anything relevant.
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