Re: extent brightness adjust in 2.6.18?

[Yves-Alexis P. <co...@co...>]

On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 10:45 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote:
> Yes it will. I am just working on that. Maybe you could help me a bit
> and answer some questions.
> 
> 1. Do you see more than one entry in /sys/class/backlight?

I'm running 2.6.18-rc6 on a powerbook 5,6 (keyboard backlight present
and working)

corsac@hidalgo: ls -R /sys/class/backlight                           [~]
/sys/class/backlight:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 1904-01-01 00:10 radeonbl0

/sys/class/backlight/radeonbl0:
total 0
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2006-09-24 12:20 actual_brightness
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2006-09-24 12:20 brightness
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2006-09-24 12:20 max_brightness
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4.0K 2006-09-24 12:20 power
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    0 2006-09-24 12:20 subsystem
-> ../../../class/backlight
--w------- 1 root root 4.0K 2006-09-24 12:20 uevent


> 2. If so, what are they for? 
> 3. Has the keyboard backlight an entry in /sys/class/backlight too?

No it seems not (but maybe I'm lacking some config option)

>    I studied the kernel source and found no clue for that but I might
>    have missed something.
> 
Regards;
-- 
Yves-Alexis