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Date:      Fri, 03 Feb 2023 08:46:28 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
Cc:        "parv/FreeBSD" <parv.0zero9+freebsd@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Could not change brightness anymore with i915kms & acpi_video modules c 202211
Message-ID:  <202302030846.3138kSMO006053@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <20230203084017.b1e8dc1f9116d8a55a1c2cfd@bidouilliste.com>
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Emmanuel Vadot writes:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2023 20:58:58 +0000
> "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
> > --------
> > parv/FreeBSD writes:
> > 
> > > > Does backlight(8) works for you?
> > >
> > > Thanks for the clue. It does! It does ...
> > >
> > > - I get the same number back via "backlight" without any arguments as
> > >   what I gave it earlier. There was no reporting of value being
> > >   subtracted by one;
> > 
> > Sorry for the delay in reporting back.
> > 
> > I consistently read one less back, except for 0 and 100.
>
>  Even 50 ?

	# backlight 
	brightness: 0
	# backlight 50
	# backlight
	brightness: 49
	# backlight 25
	# backlight
	brightness: 24
	# backlight 75
	# backlight
	brightness: 74

yes

>  So if you have, let's say brightness at 50%, and you plug an external
> monitor, brightness goes up to 100% ?

No, plugging and unplugging does not change the backlight.

But when the screen saver has kicked in, and I wake it up again, it comes
back at 100, (and reads back as 100)

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