Re: Bug#506644: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#506644: gnome-power-manager: Brightness applet does not change brightness
- To: Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, 506644@bugs.debian.org
- Cc: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>, Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>, Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>, debian-x <debian-x@lists.debian.org>, pkg-utopia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#506644: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#506644: gnome-power-manager: Brightness applet does not change brightness
- From: Sjoerd Simons <sjoerd@luon.net>
- Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 15:06:18 +0000
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20081205150618.GA27508@night.luon.net>
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On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:35:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 15:23 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > What's the value of the BACKLIGHT_CONTROL randr property in the
> > working/non-working cases? (xrandr --prop will list it)
>
> Here it is listed as:
> BACKLIGHT_CONTROL: kernel
> supported: native legacy combination kernel
>
> I don???t have a working setup handy anymore, unfortunately.
Check if you hav e a class backlight device in /sys (iotw something under
/sys/class/backlight). If so you should be able to control the backlight via
hal. You can test the kernel by echoing values into the brightness file
Sjoerd
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