Re: [gpm] Brightness control in Acer laptops

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 22:33 +0200, Michal Majchrowicz wrote:
> I spent some time on finding a way to control brightness of my laptop
> in software way. Fortunately acer_acpi (with some tweaks) add this
> support to my computer. I can now set brightnes trough
> /proc/acpi/acer/brightness interface. But
> gnome-power-manager/brightness-applet is unable to detect that I have
> a software way of controlong brightness:( How can I fix it?
> Regards Michal.

Sorry for the delay, I'm now going through months of email backlog. To
fix this you need to convince the ACER guys to either implement the
backlight kernel class, or try to get brightness working using XRANDR.

Richard.