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Date:      Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:13:03 +0100 (CET)
From:      Lukas Ertl <le@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: LCD Brightness control via sysctl..
Message-ID:  <20040307121054.T624@korben.in.tern>
In-Reply-To: <200403071526.46219.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <200403071526.46219.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> I tried the acpi-vid patch earlier and have now updated my kernel to grab the
> committed version, but I still don't see any brightness sysctls :(
>
> I don't understand how I can have a .active entry for a display but
> no .brightness (after looking at the code).

Your DSDT is missing the relevant methods, like _BCL and _BCM.  It's the
same here, I can see which display is active, but I can't control
brightness.

regards,
le

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