From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 30 14:55:10 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0181065670 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:55:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [65.122.17.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3FC8FC13 for ; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:55:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bigwig.baldwin.cx (66.111.2.69.static.nyinternet.net [66.111.2.69]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1C8446B2D; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from jhbbsd.localnet (smtp.hudson-trading.com [209.249.190.9]) by bigwig.baldwin.cx (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 15A738A021; Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:03 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:11:40 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.1 (FreeBSD/7.3-CBSD-20100217; KDE/4.3.1; amd64; ; ) References: <4BB170E7.3030407@obluda.cz> In-Reply-To: <4BB170E7.3030407@obluda.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201003301011.40215.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (bigwig.baldwin.cx); Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:55:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.1 at bigwig.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on bigwig.baldwin.cx Cc: Subject: Re: Brightness change on notebook that follow ACPI specification (par. B.7) X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:55:10 -0000 On Monday 29 March 2010 11:32:55 pm Dan Lukes wrote: > > Most notebooks have special keys (mostly Fn+something) to change > brightness of LCD display. > > Some of them (my notebok, for example) follows the ACPI specification > (paragraph B.7) how to announce the user request for brightness change > to OS. > > I implemented such handling as part of acpi-video module. > > It's verified to work on my HP Mini 5101 & FreeBSD 8.0. > > No test on other notebook done as I have no other notebook. A patch to implement the brightness controls was already committed to HEAD a while ago and have already been merged to 8-stable and 7-stable. Can you test the a kernel from 8-stable to ensure it works ok on your machine? The patches in HEAD work fine on an HP Mini 2140 that I have here. -- John Baldwin