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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
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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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