On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 19:01:08 +0200, Dirk Griesbach wrote: > Now I had the time to test 2.0.0; 2.1.0 and 2.1.1 with the following > results: > > With every 2.x.x release I could use xbacklight. Nice work, because with > it I can use much more brightness settings than the 8 steps provided by > the manufacturer of my laptop through ACPI. > > With 2.0.0 I can additionally use the ACPI keys. E.g. I did set the > brightness with `xbacklight -set 20` to 20% and was able to use the > ACPI keys to switch brightness from 20% (which then was the maximum for > ACPI) in 8 steps to a minimum. This is a really nice solution. And my > buttons worked. ;-) > > With 2.1.0 and later the buttons refuse to work but xbacklight worked as > expected. > > Is there any sense in changing the behaviour from version 2.0.0 to > 2.1.0? Well the changes were probably needed to fix other configurations... FWIW, on my 945gm, xbacklight never worked, but the acpi keys do. So there are a lot of different bioses / chipsets with subtly different behaviour and bugs, which makes these issues hard to deal with and reproduce. Cheers, Julien
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