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Date:      Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:44:51 -0700
From:      Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com>
To:        Hannes Mehnert <hannes@mehnert.org>
Cc:        Erich Dollansky <erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com>, matt <sendtomatt@gmail.com>, freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, nm.knife@gmail.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: x220 notes
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2012/4/1 Hannes Mehnert <hannes@mehnert.org>:
> Hi,
>
> controlling brightness works for me (via shell) - taking matt's advice
> into account:
>> \VBRC seems to allow control over the backlight, at least, so those of
> you with sore eyes or the 3-cell battery may have some success using the
> acpi_call port (Danger!)
>> kldload acpi_call
>> acpi_call -p '\VBRC' -i n (where n is 0-16; 17 (and -1) is off)

This works well, but I'll need to look at how to make Gnome do the job
so the automatic dimming will work.

Also, at least on my ThinkPad, its 0-15. 16 and 14 are identical and
slightly dimmer than 15. Maybe it's a BIOS issue on my laptop? I see
Lenovo has released a new one recently.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558@gmail.com



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