(Answering my own question)
Clues are found here:
http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/README/index.ht
ml
<http://http.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/README/index.h
tml>
Nvidia say that ACPI and hotkeys hasn't been implemented for all cards
yet but might be in the future for more recent ones.
A couple of XConfig options to play around with were:
Option "ConnectToAcpid" "boolean"
Option "EnableACPIHotkeys" "boolean"
No luck for the Quadro FX 570M as far as I could tell
I still think that it should be possible to implement ACPI compatibility
through an some sort of abstraction layer by linking ACPI events to
nvidia-settings so that there would be no need to wait for nvidia.
Alternatively one could play with the open source Nouveau drivers
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Peter Newman
Sent: Tuesday, 18 March 2008 11:52 PM
To: ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Interfacing nvidia graphics cards and acpi brightness
Hi
I started out tonight with the aim of adding a bug because my compaq
8510w brightness function keys have never worked under Ubuntu Gutsy and
now not under Hardy Heron alpha 6 either.
However what I have found is that there is no bug to report :)
The gnome-power-manager works okay but doesn't change screen brightness.
I.e. hitting the function key does change the current value here:
$ cat /proc/acpi/video/C14B/C15F/brightness
levels: 100 51 30 37 44 51 58 65 72 79 86 93 100
current: 65
Also adjusting the nvidia-settings brightness values actually changes
the screen brightness (and the nvidia card registers) but nothing for
the acpi video brightness value.
I've also found that I can adjust the screen brightness by using the
nvidia commandline interface:
$ nvidia-settings --assign RedBrightness=x --assign GreenBrightness=x
--assign BlueBrightness=x
where x is a value between -1 and 1.
So where now - there is no bug?
I've looked at smartdimmer and nvclock. These packages don't work for
all nvidia cards and seem to be risky to use. Especially when there is
a nvidia-settings package available which can already do this.
So I think that acpi should be linked to nvidia-settings somehow (I
suppose this should be the responsibility of nvidia). Would a
acpi-nvidia package work (where acpi and nvidia-settings are
prerequistes and also an active nvidia kernel/xserver) that matches acpi
video and xserver screens and sychronises registry settings?
Cheers
Pete
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