Re: [gpm] Changing Backlight

[Ted Gould <ted ubuntu com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 16:44 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:16:27PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Turn off the display? Why is <5% off? 0% should be "low dim" not "off".
> 
> Sorry I'm late to this - but on some hardware (some Sonys seem to behave 
> this way, and the hal interface for the Macbook Pros does as well) 0 
> does mean off.

So I'll ask, perhaps just to amuse myself, is there anyway to detect the
difference?  :)

It does seem like important information though, perhaps we should have
space for it in an FDI?

		--Ted