Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 12:37:50PM +0100, Juergen Kreileder wrote: >> It's a via-pmu: > > Ok, so where is the problem ? The /dev/pmu stuff would be accessible > in acme/control-center/whatever-it-is, nd everyone will be happy ? > Unless you are telling me that you don't have blacklight control for > this one ?
It doesn't have a backlight control. > Ah. So, you are not using a debian kernel, and there is no reason to > support you at all :) Hehe :-) (Using the kernel provided by Debian would mean wasting 2GB of memory on my machine.) > Well, we need to test this from userland, not kernelland. It shouldn't be too hard to find "backlight" in device-tree. >> ,---- >> | bk_node = find_devices("backlight"); > > Ok, so there is maybe a blacklight device somewhere in /proc/devices > ? Yes. (At least I think so, I only have one machine and that doesn't have any backlight control.) > But these don't have a /dev/pmu ? Or do they have it ? via-pmu.c uses register_backlight_controller from pmac_backlight.c, so this should cover machines with via-pmu. Juergen -- Juergen Kreileder, Blackdown Java-Linux Team http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux/java2-status/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]