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Date:      Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:27:02 +0100
From:      Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de>
To:        "freebsd-x11@freebsd.org" <freebsd-x11@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Control backlight when using VESA driver with Intel graphics
Message-ID:  <20150207222702.598476af@bsd64.grem.de>

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This is what I'm using on Haswell ULT (xf86-video-vesa):

pkg install git libdrm libpciaccess
git clone https://github.com/grembo/intel_backlight_fbsd
cd intel_backlight_fbsd
make install

You can then control brightness using:
intel_backlight <percent>
intel_backlight incr
intel_backlight decr

https://github.com/grembo/intel_backlight_fbsd/blob/master/README
has more details.

-- 
Michael Gmelin



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