On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:41 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Frank Cox writes: > > > On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:57:55 -0500 > > Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> My laptop seemingly has an ambient light sensor, of some kind, and the > >> kernel apparently knows about it, but won't let me access it. > > > > Are you sure it's kernel-controlled? Perhaps it's 100% hardware. > > > > Try covering that sensor when you're looking at Grub and see if it brightens > > or dims the screen then. > > Tried that. No response in Grub, the LCD backlight begins reacting to the > ambient light sensor as soon as the kernel boots, even before initscripts > mount all the filesystems. Can you disable it in the BIOS? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - LOOK OUT!!! BEHIND YOU!!! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
