Dell backlight

[Michael_E_Brown at Dell.com]

You are welcome. 

As for your xset problem, I had a similar problem on my laptop. The dellLcdBrightness can only adjust the level, not turn it on or off. For me, I added a call to xset from the acpi script which fixed the problem. I'll dig out the laptop and check the exact syntax.
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Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Fix [mailto:brian.fix at gmail.com]
Sent: Mon 8/21/2006 11:45 PM
To: libsmbios-devel at lists.us.dell.com
Subject: Dell backlight
 
Dear Michael and libsmbios crew,

I just bought a D420 laptop, and i was scouring the web for a way to
adjust the backlight via a command line program in linux....  After
reading some posts between you and  Matthew Garrett i installed
libsmbios, the kernel stuff and ran
  ./dellLcdBrightness

it worked like a charm!

i have another question.... when using X, "xset dpms force off", seems
to only blank the screen, leaving the backlight on... is there a way
to make dellLcdBrightness do this?

thanks so much for libsmbios and dellLcdBrighness, and for the time
you have already taken to help me.


Brian.