Bug#460654: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Brightness doesn't work out of the box with i965

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Mike Hommey wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
> Version: 2:2.2.0+git20080107-1
> Severity: normal
>
> By default, on my laptop, the "kernel" BACKLIGHT_CONTROL is used, and
> that doesn't quite help xbacklight to work. I don't know what X uses in
> such a case, but it appears that tweaking
> /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness doesn't work (the laptop is a vaio)
> either, so it might just be a problem with the kernel driver.
>
> Anyways, switching to the "native" BACKLIGHT_CONTROL makes xbacklight
> work.
>   

Mike,

Can you try 2:2.2.0.90-2 which entered unstable today? If it doesn't
help, we need to forward this bug upstream at
http://bugzilla.freedesktop.org (product xorg, component Driver/Intel).
I'll do it if you can't.

thanks,
Brice