Bug#402193: ITP: macbook-backlight -- Program to change the brightness of Apple MacBook

[Enrico Tassi <gareuselesinge@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 04:54:49PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:08:49PM +0100, Enrico Tassi wrote:
> > * Package name    : macbook-backlight
> >   Version         : 
> >   Upstream Author : Ryan Lortie <desrt@mcmaster.ca>
> > * URL             : http://desrt.mcmaster.ca/code/macbook-backlight/
> > * License         : GPL
> >   Programming Lang: C
> >   Description     : Program to change the brightness of Apple MacBook
> > 
> > A simple C program to change the brightness of the MacBook display
> > tweaking some hardware registers. It works for the first (Core Duo) and
> > the second (Core 2 Duo) generation of MacBook.
> 
> What about the MacBook Pro?

AFAIK it works only on the _non_ pro models, it really writes the
registers of the intel i945 graphic card.

I think that mactel-linux has an utility to do that, but I can't test
it. If you are interested try the utils (available in the svn
repository) of mactel-linux. If they woks we could make these programs
converge to a common interface and then put them in the same package.

Ciao
-- 
Enrico Tassi