Re: [gpm] [PATCH 2.6.29] eeepc-laptop: report brightness control events via the input layer

From: Corentin Chary
Date: Tue Jun 16 2009 - 05:51:36 EST


On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Richard Hughes<hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Alan
> Jenkins<alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The driver doesn't.  As far as we know, none of them do.  Firmware does.
>
> In that case there's a "laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware" hal quirk
> that turns off all the fancy stuff, and makes the GUI DTRT without
> guessing.
>
> Richard.
>

Ok, so we just need to patch this file :
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal-info/tree/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-laptop-panel-hardware.fdi
?
If found it /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/

But I'm not sure how to do it to make it works on all Eeepc.

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