[PATCH] intel_display.c: make acpi_video last in backlight_interfaces

[Chris Wilson]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 16:31:41 +0200, Alon Levy <alevy at redhat.com> wrote:
> OK. I'm not sure what would be better for gnome / your-favorite desktop
> manager. One option is to write an xorg.conf file with this patch.
> Another is a property for the backlight interface. Even though it's
> abuse of the property interface for a one time thing (not like it would
> change during the lifetime of X). Right now it's a stopgap thing, but
> not very user friendly. This patch came from my brother complaining that
> with his mac he can lower the backlight all the way to 0, but not with
> his linux laptop. I don't want to have to maintain an xorg.conf file.
> 
> Sorry for the blurb - bottom line, I'm not sure if an xorg.conf file
> would be something management, i.e. libgnome-desktop / kde etc. would
> want to deal with, setting a property is perhaps easier, or another
> solution.

I would argue that the manufacturer expected the OS to use DPMS to turn
the backlight completely off and save further power when opting to have
it minimal backlight setting at non-zero.

Maybe that is the better answer, have gnome-power-manager turn off the
display when setting the backlight to 0. Given that we have separate
X properties for backlight and DPMS, I would prefer to leave that
decision up to the application / user.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre