On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 18:23 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Bastien Nocera wrote: > > > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 15:44 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 09:35:54AM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > >> > >> > * Can we finally remove hal? (xfce4.8 shouldn't need it anymore with > >> > any luck). > >> > >> Not without a pile of X changes, which themselves are blocking on > >> upstream kernel changes that I've submitted but which haven't been > >> merged. > > > > For brightness? For GNOME at least, this is worked around in: > > http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-power-manager/tree/src/gpm-backlight- > helper.c > > though a cleaner fix would certainly be appreciated. > > Huh? KDE trunk (4.6) already uses XRandR backlight setting in PowerDevil: > http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/powerdevil/daemon/backends/upower/xrandrbrightness.cpp?revision=1194096&view=markup > and it appears to work fine for those who have coded this. > > It might not to work for proprietary drivers, but that's those drivers' > problem. KDE basically requires XRandR since at least 4.0. >
this is a fairly new thing, AIUI: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/127103.html -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
