Re: Can't change LCD brightness

[Ray Strode <halfline gmail com>]

Hi,
> =On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Ray Strode <halfline gmail com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> There is an experimental X server branch somewhere to support changing
>> brightness control on external monitors (for the monitors that suppor
>> it).  It hasn't landed yet, but at some point in the future the
>> feature will available for GNOME to take advantage of.
>
> I thought g-c-c used udev and sysfs, not RANDR?
Not sure, I think g-c-c talks to g-s-d which either talks to upower or
maybe reads /sys itself (don't know off hand without looking).

So if this experimental functionality does land in X at some point
we'd have to write code to leverage it, but that presumably wouldn't
be a big deal.

--Ray