[Bug 27859] Please support the BACKLIGHT property in radeon

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27859

--- Comment #13 from Alex Deucher <agd5f at yahoo.com> 2010-04-29 10:12:56 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> 
> It's better this way because the RandR case has to be supported by the tools
> anyway. Because there are drivers for which there is no kernel backlight
> driver. One example is intel legacy - it's still exposed by the intel xorg
> driver.

Wouldn't it be easier to fix at one driver to use the backlight interface than
to fix everything else (radeon, fbdev, cirrus, savage, vesa, etc.) to use
xrandr?

> 
> > Maybe we should add an xrandr interface to adjust the sound card volume.  If X
> > is running, why not use xrandr to adjust the volume?  I know there's a standard
> > way to access the sound card, but X is running and it should have it's own way.
> 
> You remember there *were* standardization processes running to get audio over X
> working. They were all broken by design, though, as far as I remember, but many
> people would still love to see this happen. Unlikely any time soon (or later),
> though.

I know.  I was kidding :) Seriously though, I though we were trying to get X
out of being in the OS business.

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