Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 08:15:20 +0000 From: Miguel Clara <miguelmclara@gmail.com> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>, Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me> Subject: Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver Message-ID: <CADGo8CW8oKZTxpSrxuDMSdnrEGen%2BTah2Tr7Dnfeu9RGin0y4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=HsO9usEN2r_7EP-NvBBLUyUciX%2BQUuhT0FzRZWtONcQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <54C883E7.4000300@interlinked.me> <CAJ-Vmokw2FqLHMkc%2B0MDsDxChMC68KdkvO43qhFztTZf8F89Mg@mail.gmail.com> <CAHSQbTCrU-8kYpNoL_UiNd1PHtSG8sPnt8jRfGvEOZEWa_G4FA@mail.gmail.com> <54CC57CE.2080001@interlinked.me> <CAJ-VmonuAC9YFXR8jai5%2BKdW5q2x%2BjVVEABP0zRXiwHyWAC8pA@mail.gmail.com> <54CC7288.3040409@interlinked.me> <CAJ-Vmo=HsO9usEN2r_7EP-NvBBLUyUciX%2BQUuhT0FzRZWtONcQ@mail.gmail.com>
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Working fine on a HP running current as I've noted in the other thread as
for the keys.
This one (and most HP Pavillion models) use the Fn+F(2/3) but the keys, and
my Acer (and I think not all are like this) use "Fn+<-/->"
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 6:17 AM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 30 January 2015 at 22:13, Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me>
> wrote:
> > On 01/30/15 23:20, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> >> Do you have brightness buttons anywhere? What happens when you set it
> >> through this API and then you use the backlight buttons?
> >
> >
> > I do, but FreeBSD doesn't have the needed WMI doodads to interact with
> > this, nor do I have the needed Dell laptop doodads in the kernel to test
> > otherwise.
> >
> > To get /those/ working will require something else entirely. I have been
> > looking at the Linux drivers:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> >
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c
> >
> > I'll save those for another day though, this is a bit off-topic. If
> > anyone else has laptop keys I'd like to see how they interact too.
>
> *nod* cool. I don't have any Dell hardware and I have no idea how any
> of that holds together. :(
>
> I'll wait and see what kib/jhb say and if there aren't any issues I'll
> commit your i915 debug patch.
>
>
>
> -adrian
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