On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 08:43:10PM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > I can understand where Dave is coming from, from a kernel pov, so this > might really be easier to just solve in userspace. I don't know if you've > seen my very rough sketch of how this could work in userspace in my other > mail. The idea would be to still make this show up on a specific connector, > but only at the xrandr level, not at the drm level, and have the xserver > talk to some kind of backlightd for this. The backlightd API should of cource > be generic enough that it can be used in wayland too.
Sure. You should probably take a look at libbacklight, which already has some amount of support for appropriate heuristics. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org _______________________________________________ xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel