Re: [gpm] Display Brightness Control on Compaq Presario F700 / HP6000

[royconejo <royconejo gmail com>]

No answer? =)

well in the meantime I found "omnibook", a kernel module which
supports *some* models of HP/Compaq.. bur it does not support G6000 or
F700..

my real question was: where do gnome power managment / brightness
applet looks for backlight dimming support?

do you know about that project (omnibook)? do somebody knows about
another kernel module being developed for HP/Compaq supporting
backlight control?

and.. there is no standard way to control a backlight with standard
ACPI calls?? (I dont know a thing about ACPI, I'm just asking because
it seems there is a standard way to control AC/Battery power, etc). if
the answer is yes, could I test some kernel module or whatever to see
if it works here?


thanks =)



On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:39 AM, royconejo <royconejo gmail com> wrote:
>
> Yes.. I'm attaching both outputs
>
>   (there is an error not shown with
>   cat: /etc/*-release: No such file or directory
>   in gnome-power-bugreport.sh)
>
>   I've self compiled the kernel from kernel.org.. it's not the same
>   shipped with my distro
>
>   Thanks =)
>
>
>
>
>   On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:53 AM, Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com> wrote:
>   > On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 05:31 -0200, royconejo wrote:
>   >  > there is any support to backlight dimming on HP G6000? there is any
>   >  > way to force it to work here (F700) for testing?
>   >  > or.. there is support for dimming specifically for the Compaq F700
>   >  > series or any relatively new Compaq model at all so I can test?
>   >  > support for backlight dimming is embedded on the applet/gnome power
>   >  > manager or it is a kernel module?
>   >
>   >  Can you please attach the output of:
>   >
>   >  gnome-power-bugreport.sh
>   >
>   >  and
>   >
>   >  ls -R /sys/class/backlight/
>   >
>   >  Thanks.
>   >
>   >  Richard.
>   >
>   >
>   >
>