On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 10:32:46PM +0800, Yu Luming wrote: > >From my understanding, a cute userspace App shouldn't have this kind > of logic: (snip switching on hardware type) > It should be: > just write/read file in /sys/class/backlight ,.... Yup, but to do that on Dell hardware is basically impossible. It'd be nice if they implemented the ACPI video extension properly for future hardware. -- Matthew Garrett | [email protected] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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