Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-11 Thread Ali Polatel
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:43:24 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ali... On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:09, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: Well xbacklight doesn't work at all on this box: $ xbacklight No outputs have backlight property Great :( Well, perhaps

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-11 Thread Denis Kirjanov
You can start reading the source code. drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c for example On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:43:24 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ali... On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:09, Ali

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-11 Thread Ali Polatel
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:59:06 +0400, Denis Kirjanov kirja...@gmail.com wrote: You can start reading the source code. drivers/platform/x86/asus-laptop.c for example I've been reading the sources of different laptop drivers but all of them look laptop-specific, so I'm looking for a way to identify

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-11 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:47:09AM +0300, Ali Polatel wrote: On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:43:24 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ali... On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:09, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: Well xbacklight doesn't work at all on this box: $

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-10 Thread Ali Polatel
On Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:29:52 +0700, Mulyadi Santosa mulyadi.sant...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 14:46, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: Hi everyone, I want to write laptop extras for my laptop¹ so that changing brightness of the screen etc. are supported by Linux. I am

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-10 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
Hi Ali... On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:09, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: Well xbacklight doesn't work at all on this box: $ xbacklight No outputs have backlight property Great :( Well, perhaps the first thing you need to do is see the complete output of lshw and then discuss it with

Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-09 Thread Ali Polatel
Hi everyone, I want to write laptop extras for my laptop¹ so that changing brightness of the screen etc. are supported by Linux. I'm very new to kernel programming and I think this will be a very nice exercise to start up. I want some directions on how to startup, I know nothing about the

Re: Laptop extras for unsupported laptop brand

2010-10-09 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 14:46, Ali Polatel a...@exherbo.org wrote: Hi everyone, I want to write laptop extras for my laptop¹ so that changing brightness of the screen etc. are supported by Linux. I am just thinking, how about starting with how xbacklight works and see its source code? :) --