Dell backlight

[Brian Fix]

Michael,

I also did some putzing with my xserver, and the DPMS options... this
seems to work ok.... i have one other question...

My laptop has a sensor, and an automatic light control feature that i
can turn on and off with a fn-(star-auto) key... is there any way of
turning on or off this automatic adjustment of backlight feature with
libsmbios?

Thanks again.


Brian



On 8/22/06, Michael_E_Brown at dell.com <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com> wrote:
> 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.
> --
> 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.
>