From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 25 07:40:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D12E106566B for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:40:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3A858FC17 for ; Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:40:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz2 with SMTP id 2so647095bwz.13 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:40:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type; bh=fyOwaBU+Rlms/b41SrPdiXwMmcswaJpiFWAps1vGPQ8=; b=BAkvVtPUv+LM3WQqxdHkE6OD32/pKS2knejw1jsSp1HsScHQrCYkpyJr3rMqLqM14L zo5G9h1w5KYGrliYswq/L5fmruNNBR+/dGJjmHeSYdzZeNXzo5UM5PGUrpi/AYCYFiSN u5VJVbXOdw+Wd0FoYa5ZWjQWfKbSQJ/p3Pe7g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=whN9hU+nCZxb2qPTaV8Ux2HwLn0fE6ClfYmfW54a5xzdrs2PKQL9+wmQ94U22qoYfr ZhJnV2rHq46KMCMO67yM+Z9khiCh2gPCkBCAkCgNMtAxrN4E5eNGYlXl5leCax1uGmXz KwLvyp/Q38tPf/vzTU87LkxNvdnwT8rmIKlU8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.129.210 with SMTP id p18mr324928bks.85.1290669403516; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:16:43 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.204.127.20 with HTTP; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 23:16:43 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:16:43 +0100 Message-ID: From: David DEMELIER To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Adjust your brightness via command line X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 07:40:39 -0000 Hello everyone, I've got a laptop that cannot adjust brightness using functions keys so I wrote a little program that use the acpi_video(4) driver and sysctl(3). The program adjust brightness using one arguments : up or down. Check this example : markand@Melon ~ $ brightness up switching to 46 markand@Melon ~ $ sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 46 markand@Melon ~ $ brightness down switching to 43 markand@Melon ~ $ sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 43 So if you canno't adjust brightness using function keys on your laptop use this program with any bindkey in your window manager : SHA256 (/www/var/srv/files/softs/brightness-0.1.tgz) = 0a44aeaedcd25f18eae3375d0b9d24bb994829b0af8b8304ecaffb6733ffbbab http://files.malikania.fr/softs/brightness-0.1.tgz Kind regards, -- Demelier David