[Pommed-devel] backlight support for macbook rev 3

[Julien BLACHE]

Steffen Schulz <pepe at cbg.dyndns.org> wrote:

Hi,

>> Great ! Do you have something under /proc/acpi/video/ ?
>
> Nope. It works without loading the acpi video module, which from the
> kernel doc is only a reference implementation anyway.

Yes, it's writing directly to the IO port so it doesn't need any
module :)

> cat /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/LCD/brightness 
>  <not supported>

Too bad. We'll go with the bl1.c code for now, I guess :)

> For whatever reason, it is named 'applesmc.768' here.
> Latest mactel-patches from svn.

Duh, forgot about that one. You need pommed from SVN, that's the very
first change I made for 1.8 :)

JB.

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