Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:43:22 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EeePC LCD brightness control Message-ID: <480C0D5A.2020603@root.org> In-Reply-To: <1208294538.8383.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <m2hce668q2.wl%funa@funa.org> <1208294538.8383.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Eric Anholt wrote: > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 06:53 +0900, Akira Funahashi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've created a patch to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE for ASUS EeePC. >> The patch will be applied to /sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_asus.c, >> which enalbes me to control LCD brightness on EeePC through >> sysctl and [Fn]+[F3],[F4] key. >> >> Here is a patch: >> http://celldesigner.org/~funa/acpi_asus.c.diff >> >> Hope this helps, > > We really need to work out how to get these keys reported as input > events so that they can be passed through to the desktop and handled in > an appropriate manner. As-is, we end up with poor backlight management > because we've got ACPI and the 2D driver (and HAL trying to use one of > the two) fighting over who controls it. I'm happy if someone examines how linux dbus does it and comes up with a design. These drivers can be converted wholesale once we have a plan. I don't agree if the plan is to just hack some hardcoded values into kbd(4), on the other hand. -- Nate
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