[Debian-eeepc-devel] RFC: remove OSD support for screen brightness

[Luca Niccoli]

I'd like to propose to drop OSD support for screen brightness.
Squeeze's kernel synthesizes a key event that will make many desktop
environments display their own nice OSD;
moreover, screen brightness is kind of self-evident, so the OSD it's
not strictly necessary;
most importantly, on lenny's kernel it's driven by the generic
video/brightness acpi event, so keeping it it's kind of a conflict
with acpi-support (I have to experiment about it; I suspect it
wouldn't properly crash things, but it would still be a generic
functionality implemented in a system-specific package).
Cheers,

Luca