Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-15 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a completely dark screen for my login prompt. I was blindly able to go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and do a rm *pmu* and then reboot. ... I'm trying to figure out the best way to expose this to userland though. I think I'll

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi Ben, There is currently no solution for external flat panels, I simple don't know how backlight is controlled on these. On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a completely dark screen for my login prompt. I was blindly able to go to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ and do

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 20:14, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. I tried pbbuttonssd just

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 14:18, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi Ben, There is currently no solution for external flat panels, I simple don't know how backlight is controlled on these. On a lark I installed pmud and pbbuttonsd but all I ended up with was a completely dark screen for my login

Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread David MENTRE
Hello, On an iBook under MacOS X, I've noticed that MacOS X reduces backlight when the user is inactive and restores backlight as soon as a user press a key. Is it possible to have similar behavior under Debian 3.0 ? Best regards, d. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:10:52PM +0100, David MENTRE wrote: Hello, On an iBook under MacOS X, I've noticed that MacOS X reduces backlight when the user is inactive and restores backlight as soon as a user press a key. Is it possible to have similar behavior under Debian 3.0 ? try

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Kevin B. Hendricks
Hi, I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. I tried pbbuttonssd just to see but I get an error message about having no /dev/pmu

Re: Management of backlight

2003-03-08 Thread Matthew Yee-King
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 02:14:48PM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote: Hi, I have an 17 inch LCD flatpanel and would very much like to control brightness and turning off the backlighting after a time period on my desktop machine similar to what pbbuttonsd does for PowerBooks. I tried