Bug#506644: [Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#506644: gnome-power-manager: Brightness applet does not change brightness

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:35:48PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 décembre 2008 à 15:23 +0100, Julien Cristau a écrit :
> > What's the value of the BACKLIGHT_CONTROL randr property in the
> > working/non-working cases?  (xrandr --prop will list it)
> 
> Here it is listed as:
> 	BACKLIGHT_CONTROL: kernel
> 		supported: native       legacy       combination  kernel      
> 
> I don???t have a working setup handy anymore, unfortunately.

Check if you hav e a class backlight device in /sys (iotw something under
/sys/class/backlight). If so you should be able to control the backlight via
hal. You can test the kernel by echoing values into the brightness file

  Sjoerd
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