From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 7 00:11:47 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D9B1CFA; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 00:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-x22d.google.com (mail-qc0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c01::22d]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7FC9115DC; Fri, 7 Feb 2014 00:11:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id i8so4567875qcq.4 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:11:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Nin9J1KBvMUXkzhaRe1hfRArdX3RzkHKXnU0l3+ewD0=; b=a7Of+pU6SMCyLc6rY5O3Y2ABrik+VPS62mbIilJz6R97hRgzElDJJz267sMTJaGDlY sU0e2eLWr/uOneYnlE+ez/WMUKmF78WWBL8SzW4XC9gcDteZqjGvC0wsENeix4spifCG mvlHbSbhpSNm7fFamcyUoWhdhHt9htPSL57kgzxmfFr9uvBwl37MqwNq75jsuZCY1oDq D/4ak57vZrR76OUjNk4bP7M7bv7Pj0ltNUTF5Db/fnYdRXfGTtLmTHrnCOIzkmEAj3Vr 3EMbCRGw4HagSMmhT6ljuqwlDXkz1/gyOLD2dpyxXtK8yzFUyjaCSYOiMO7EDj1u8KMf 73QQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.49.239 with SMTP id q102mr15794048qga.103.1391731906681; Thu, 06 Feb 2014 16:11:46 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.52.8 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Feb 2014 16:11:46 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 16:11:46 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5-zWbKOfhXiGDwbrG21_4kZzkwU Message-ID: Subject: Re: Story of a laptop user From: Adrian Chadd To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: desktop@freebsd.org, "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2014 00:11:47 -0000 Well, the trick is to tie it in with whatever other fondling the intel xorg stuff is doing, so things don't clash. How's linux do this? Is there an intel backlight control kernel module for this? -a On 5 February 2014 12:19, Eitan Adler wrote: > 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