From owner-freebsd-desktop@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 5 20:19:40 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: desktop@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8A34490F for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x232.google.com (mail-qc0-x232.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 39F3114C7 for ; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 20:19:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f178.google.com with SMTP id m20so1517068qcx.37 for ; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:19:39 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=j/v1CJOi1OJNAAAvJkF2EhC/U2keUS48Gby/exsngBc=; b=ecd0KHg+Eg88aKv4Z+BO2QpuR3wnaLixzG7L/QimL4aQm3IYjTSdaQl1D0Bthw1C9+ 9KyqFN/JJulBHMuMERVQeAd40+6uxUO8XJk6DZspPhD06G1JyRxFDIxE5F4VmBojevoA 2iAkrXser+zVxngKoKSrW4Jvw3G0KkIqofv5c= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=j/v1CJOi1OJNAAAvJkF2EhC/U2keUS48Gby/exsngBc=; b=i81fKiQkqTcg3s4gag5eh51hlT3stnMtkR3XjjpeS+GUDiTGb/k6fp/BwR8yJEuMBT Te1LMQG6YsVrtuc2c/VfxqX/6Al8pMsm4arshbgBdkuXHrgH78+/krxg/InV1T6msbPs eIdDeAtsD4RT84GPHa8tI6EuKObFHuFUqTD2tS+2F38ILXFs4T5F6Pg7eFpu7cnq1dAV CckxzIzF2PTK0wN6U4r9DWsp0q5ARqJBU90S/PpGjeHeTwwws00w2Rbyx/PDd7XyWq7p Fg9STwrs5lJUsshH5xUJG6Cb2+kVEzdR+xE/IgGDh9qmaxRPHiWqebV4NTGPsQ2wZTTF y5Kg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnMx3aeHgjm+gpaMl55P5O8w75khmrB48torXdy2X12ikqrPxWmMR0RsHE0Q9oxG4Yre4ZY X-Received: by 10.140.80.53 with SMTP id b50mr5718185qgd.43.1391631576915; Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:19:36 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.30.229 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:19:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Eitan Adler Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 15:19:05 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Story of a laptop user To: Warren Block Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Adrian Chadd , desktop@freebsd.org, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-desktop@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Using and improving FreeBSD on the desktop List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 20:19:40 -0000 On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: >>> >>> hi, >>> >>> Try (if I'm reading your dump correctly): >>> >>> _SB.PCI0.PEG0.VGA.LCD._BCM >>> _SB.PCI0.PEG1.VGA.LCD._BCM >>> _SB.PCI0.GFX0.DD02._BCM >>> >>> .. god I wish we had a way to actually just dump the tree in a useful >>> fashion to inspect what objects there are. >>> >>> Anyway, do the acpi_call hacks to various nodes that have _BCM in them >>> and see if setting any of them changes your brightness. >> >> >> Nothing here changed the screen brightness. If you have another >> suggestion i'd be happy to try it. > > > Not ACPI, but maybe a way that will work: > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=44146&p=249316 That 'worked' in the sense that the program 'intel_backlight' changed the visible backlight. However, I'd still love to tie this functionality in with the brightness keys on the keyboard. Thanks for the info! -- Eitan Adler