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Date:      Tue, 2 Mar 2004 11:48:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:    RE: [acpi-jp 3093] Re: Update on ACPI with FreeBSD CURRENT on ThinkPad T30
Message-ID:  <20040302114344.N12977@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8470255F036@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com>
References:  <F760B14C9561B941B89469F59BA3A8470255F036@orsmsx401.jf.intel.com>

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On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: owner-acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org
> > [mailto:owner-acpi-jp@jp.FreeBSD.org] On Behalf Of Randy Bush
> > > Try using the sysctls from the new acpi_video module to turn off the
> > > backlight, perhaps by turning the brightness way down.
> >
> > i am on a t40p and have tried a lot of this to no avail.
>
> My understanding is that actually turning off the backlight is not done
> via _BCM. But, I still don't know exactly how it *is* done. _PS3 might
> do it, but some people have hinted that this is something that the video
> driver is supposed to know how to do.

I believe you're correct.  On others, the _PSx methods do control
backlight.  However, for this platform most is done through SMI so I'm not
sure.

-Nate



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