2012/4/1 Hannes Mehnert <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > controlling brightness works for me (via shell) - taking matt's advice > into account: >> \VBRC seems to allow control over the backlight, at least, so those of > you with sore eyes or the 3-cell battery may have some success using the > acpi_call port (Danger!) >> kldload acpi_call >> acpi_call -p '\VBRC' -i n (where n is 0-16; 17 (and -1) is off)
This works well, but I'll need to look at how to make Gnome do the job so the automatic dimming will work. Also, at least on my ThinkPad, its 0-15. 16 and 14 are identical and slightly dimmer than 15. Maybe it's a BIOS issue on my laptop? I see Lenovo has released a new one recently. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
