Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-19 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
thanks for the info. It looks like I'm using the same graphics card as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or?OpenBSD

2007-08-17 Thread Rogério Brito
On Aug 15 2007, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > * As for my graphics card, I am using an ATI chip. This is a fairly old > PowerBook G4. You can see which version of the ATI chip you have using lspci. My iBook G3 600MHz has a Rage Mobility M3. Regards, Rogério. -- Rogério Brito : [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-15 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey there, Thanks for the response. It is good to know that this is not a debian specific issue. * As for my graphics card, I am using an ATI chip. This is a fairly old PowerBook G4. * Kernel Version: 2.16.18.4-powerpc I will definitely try to do a bit more research about the backlight curve

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Torrance
Hi Amit, I'm not sure what the graphics card is in your powerbook, but I noticed a reduction in brightness compared to OSX when using Debian on my iMac G5 (revA) which has an nvidia device. When I put the question to this list, this is the response I got back: On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thank you! I did check out pommed and it requires kernel 2.6.22 I think so I will have to compile that and then compile pommed from source. I rather not move into unstable just yet. Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thank you for all your help! I guess I'll live with this. I will try reading some more on this issue. Thank's again Amit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-14 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 00:32:04 + (UTC) Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed 'powerprefs' from aptitude and followed your instructions. A few > points from the display page. > > * Under LCD Tab: Current Brightness Level: 100% > * Under Options: Simply has framebuffer opt

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-13 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yves-Alexis Perez corsac.net> writes: > > On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:22 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I checked out the 'max_brightness' and 'actual_brightness' and both of > > them are > > set to 127. Is it safe to set them up at a higher level? > > If max_brightness is 127 you won't be

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:32 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Also, I've read something about pommed package available in testing > and > unstable. Do you have any experiences with that? >From my own experience, pommed is far simpler, lighter and better than pbbuttonsd. -- Yves-Alexis -- To

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-12 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On dim, 2007-08-12 at 00:22 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I checked out the 'max_brightness' and 'actual_brightness' and both of > them are > set to 127. Is it safe to set them up at a higher level? If max_brightness is 127 you won't be able to set it to higher value. -- Yves-Alexis -- T

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> I think your system uses the new SysFS Brightness interface which has > 128 or maybe 256 brightness steps on your system. You could check this > with the program Powerprefs, go to the display page (light bulb) and > check which "Driver" is currently active in pbbuttonsd to control the > display

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> If you have the sysfs interface with radeon card, you can try to look > in /sys/class/backlight/radeonbl0/ > > Especially check for max_brightness and actual_brightness. If you want, > you can manually adjust it using: > > echo 127 > /sys/class/backlight/radeonbl0/brightness > > Regards, Tha

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Yves-Alexis Perez
On ven, 2007-08-10 at 21:07 +, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > However, I have a small issue with the brightness level. I had OpenBSD > (4.1) and > Mac OS X (10.4) installed at one point and the brightness level was > much higher > than what I have here in Debian. I installed pbbuttonsd and brightn

Re: PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-11 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 21:07:55 + (UTC) Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > However, I have a small issue with the brightness level. I had OpenBSD (4.1) > and > Mac OS X (10.4) installed at one point and the brightness level was much > higher > than what I have here in Debian. I

PowerBook G4 screen in Debian not as bright as Mac OS X or OpenBSD

2007-08-10 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I have Debian 'etch' installed on this system and my God it is a beautiful system. It gives life back into this old baby. No major issues at all. Great job by the developers! However, I have a small issue with the brightness level. I had OpenBSD (4.1) and Mac OS X (10.4) installed at on