From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 7 03:13:23 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0E1F16A4CE for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 03:13:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailbox.univie.ac.at (mail.univie.ac.at [131.130.1.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C2343D2F for ; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 03:13:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from le@FreeBSD.org) Received: from wireless (adslle.cc.univie.ac.at [131.130.102.11]) i27BD7Ng1336034; Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:13:15 +0100 Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2004 12:13:03 +0100 (CET) From: Lukas Ertl To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <200403071526.46219.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: <20040307121054.T624@korben.in.tern> References: <200403071526.46219.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-DCC-ZID-Univie-Metrics: mailbox 4243; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: LCD Brightness control via sysctl.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2004 11:13:23 -0000 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 -- Lukas Ertl http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ le@FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/