Hello, In 2006 a property laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware was added to HAL [1] to inform client of different handling of the bightness control key by the BIOS (some BIOSes forward the event to the userspace, some handle them directly, some both handle them and forward them to userspace).
However, now that HAL is currently deprecated in favor of DeviceKit, and XRandR for controlling the brightness, the difference of handling of the brightness control key is once more causing bug in userspace (see [2], [3] but it is not specific to gnome-power-manager, it also affect kde user). So there is a need to one more time address this issue by using a database to inform daemon of how the brightness event is handled by the BIOS. I'm willing to help with this issue as I've got one of the affected BIOS (MSI Wind U100). However I'm not familiar with DeviceKit nor XRandR, and don't know in which project I need to add this caracterisation of the BIOS and exposition of the equivalent of the laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware property ? Thank you for the pointers, [1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2006-May/005242.html [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=601410 [3] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 PS: I'm not subscribed to xorg-devel list, so please cc reply to me. -- Sylvain Defresne _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
