Re: [Mactel-linux-users] Preventing CD-ROM polling with HAL

[Nick H. <li...@gm...>]

On 29/06/07, Jon Grosshart <jgr...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hey guys, where do we see the screen brightness level in /{sys,proc}? Been
> playing around with it and that is a big power hog. I can lower power
> consumption by a couple watts and still have a readable screen (that puts me
> about even with what Sheer is getting). I know your supposed to be able to
> set it in pommed.conf but I'd like to cat/echo directly to /sys if at all
> possible. I feel like a mouse in a maze when I start digging thru /sys
> sometimes... :-)
>
> Thanks. On a side note, there is an apple superdrive firmware update
> available. I installed it but haven't tried burning to see if any of my
> problems are resolved with the superdrive.


hi Jon. for me, the file is /sys/devices/platform/applesmc/position . i'm
running 2.6.21.1+mactel on Debian Etch.
-Nick