Re: [gpm] Gnome Power Manager and Brightness

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

Sorry for the delay, busy week...

On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 09:18 -0800, Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
> Also, as you have mentioned before, i do not find laptop_panel device in 
> lshal output. What does this implicate? Wondering where should i look to 
> find the problem so that i can try fixing it.

You need to find (google is the best way) a way of changing the
brightness on the command line - when can do that, then it's pretty
trivial to add support to HAL. For instance, I can do "echo 3
> /proc/acpi/vendor/brightness" to change mine.

Richard.