[Q] Software control of LCD backlight?

[Daniel Stone]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 01:45:31PM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On 8/11/07, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Would it be better to abstract monitors in randr or just add/remove
> them as output properties?

I think abstracting monitors in RandR is a pretty good imitation of the
way forward.

Cheers,
Daniel
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