[Q] Software control of LCD backlight?

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:06:22PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> Unless we want to expose the full list of ddc/ci monitor controls via
> randr, randr  would just be providing the i2c interface.  the control
> would all be done trough a lib and some other app like ddccontrol or
> whatever. that lib could then have a back end for the randr interface
> and the usb one.

I'd like to expose them as properties, instead of making apps do the
properties.  If we need crazy monitor-specific crap, we can just extend
the server's EDID quirks table.  However, in the future, we could punt
things like this to HAL.

Cheers,
Daniel
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