Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-24 Thread Éric Piel
Op 23-06-10 17:38, Alex Deucher schreef: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:41 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: >>> Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. >>

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-23 Thread giovanni_re
On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:38:16 -0400, "Alex Deucher" said: > KMS exposes the ddc i2c buses via sysfs, so you can access them > directly. It would be pretty easy to add some common ddc/ci code to > the drm and then expose whatever controls are found via sysfs and > xrandr as connector attributes sim

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-23 Thread Alex Deucher
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Xavier Bestel wrote: > On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:41 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: >> Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: >> > Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might >> > have a suggestion. >> > >> > == >> > I've just installed an Apple

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-23 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:41 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: > Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: > > Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might > > have a suggestion. > > > > == > > I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 > > year old monitor.

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Tino Keitel
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 00:41:28 +0200, Éric Piel wrote: [...] > Why do you think you can change the brightness via software? It is very > unsual for separate monitors to support this. Isn't there some buttons Well, there is a "USB Monitor Control Class" defined, so you can connect a monitor whi

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Tino Keitel
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 14:56:11 -0700, giovanni_re wrote: [...] > I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 > year old monitor. > Using KUbuntu 10.4 [...] > Looking in the > KDE System Settings > General > Computer Administration > Display > Size > & orientation >

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, > there is no adjustment for brightness. I have a Cinema Display from this era too, and the brightness control consists of two "touch buttons" directly above the power button on the right-hand side of the monitor. Do you have similar buttons on yours? - Chris. -- Chris Ball One Lapto

Re: Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread Éric Piel
Op 22-06-10 23:56, giovanni_re schreef: > Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might > have a suggestion. > > == > I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 > year old monitor. > Using KUbuntu 10.4 > > The apple website indicates this monito

Howto Lower brightness on Apple LCD Monitor? KUbuntu 10.4, KDE System Settings Display; jor XOrg

2010-06-22 Thread giovanni_re
Didn't get an answer on KUbuntu list, so hopefully someone here might have a suggestion. == I've just installed an Apple Cinema Display (LCD) monitor. This is a 5 year old monitor. Using KUbuntu 10.4 The apple website indicates this monitor has: User controls (hardware and software): Disp