Sebastian Gaul: My script is not perfect : it overides the applet (in fact it does exactly what the applet does in a different language). But i think it still a good thing because : 1- it better respect the security 2- with it Gnome brightness preferences works (when you swith form sector/battery the light changes)
Laurent Almeras: Firstly thanks for all your work... Secondly, setting the brightness for VAIO seems to be a common problem (on ubuntu's french forum), what we have done so far should works out of the box for smartdimmer users ! But unfortunately many users still have to use xbacklight or even software solution. I think we can easily provide a solution for them too. Thinking a bit about it, it seems to me that the best way is just to use a common platform for all VAIO users in hal which will call acpi. This way it will allows every users to set his brightness correctly (or if not with a software implementation). Advantages : 1- more flexible (people will just have to change a variable to switch between different solution ("echo", xbacklight, smartdimmer, nvclock) 2- it will reduce the complexity of the problem because there will have only one file or two for everyone 3- you can make it for every vaio users Disvantages : 1- it makes hal dépendant of acpi 2- others ideas that i haven't been thinking of... Thirdly and Finally, i'm asking you if you're interrested in it so that i can count on you to "package" it and helping me if i got a problem. -- LCD brightness setting doesn't work with Sony Vaio VGN-S5M https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/77739 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs