On Monday, December 24, 2007 8:09 am Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > Since on Thinkpads, the kernel method is available (either via the > > kernel thinkpad driver or ACPI) you should try to use that, but it > > may be that the acpi_video1 method is your best choice. You can > > try that interface by changing the order of the string array in > > i830_lvds.c around line 67. > > Patches to fix the kernel to not export a backlight entry for > inactive ACPI nodes are queued, but really, it is *an extremely bad > idea* to hardcode *anything* of the sort inside X.org. It needs to > be made a configurable *list* of backlight devices, please.
That's good, but there has to be a list somewhere since the kernel backlight interface was so poorly designed. I don't care if it's in the driver with an override list in xorg.conf or what, but it has to be somewhere. Jesse -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
