ahhhh it makes sense. Based on the original list mail, I didn't understand it relied on the _library_, and I failed to interpret that.
Thanks for the reply :) El jue, 10 mar 2022 a la(s) 06:01, Carsten Haitzler (ras...@rasterman.com) escribió: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2022 21:53:16 -0300 Wido <wido...@gmail.com> said: > > > Hhhhhhello! > > > > I've been recently digging into E's ability for backlight, and saw this > > post from Mr Raster himself: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/git@lists.enlightenment.org/msg23232.html > > > > So, if I understand correctly, E has the ability to change backlight from > > regular monitors (and not only for laptops!). And this even has 2 years! > > > > But today I'm posting to the list because this is not working, and I > don't > > really know why :D > > > > I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 using Niko's PPA ( > > http://ppa.launchpad.net/niko2040/e19/ubuntu/) and using E 0.25. Also, > > Ubuntu has no "libddcutil" but it does have a plain "ddcutil", which I > > tried and it's working with my monitor. I've also tried gddccontrol, same > > protocol, different lib, also works. > > you need libddcutil.so.[2,3,4]. you will have to provide it somehow. it > needs > the library. not the binary util. you will probably have to compile and > install > it yourself and not rely on packages. > > > So, I'm kinda curious if my problem is the integration between E and > DDC. I > > tried looking into the code to reverse engineer (and granted, I am BAD at > > it :D ), but the line that I definitely do not understand is this one: > > ```e_system_send("ddc-val-set", "%s %i %i", bd->dev + 4, 0x10, > > (int)(bd->val * 100.0)); // backlight val in e_system_ddc.c``` > > > > So, how does that `ddc-val-set` works? > > > > > > regards! > > > > -- > > Wido > > > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-users mailing list > > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > > > > > -- > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com > > -- Wido _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
