Re: [PATCH] Added backlight driver for Acer Aspire 4736

From: joeyli
Date: Mon Mar 19 2012 - 23:57:40 EST


Hi Pradeep,

æ äï2012-03-19 æ 17:03 +0530ïPradeep Subrahmanion æåï
> > For the maximum level causes blank screen...
> >
> > Please kindly help to identify which driver handle the brightness
> > change, run the following 2 commands:
> >
> > # echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/acer-wmi/brightness
> > # echo 5 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
> >
> > Which one works to change brightness on your machine?
>
> Both of them do not work for me.Only hot keys are working.
>
> Writing to /sys/class/backlight/acer-wmi/brightness
>
> and /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness do not cause any
>
> change in brightness.
>
>
> Regards ,
>
> Pradeep Subrahmanion

A bit strange...

Could you please paste your /proc/cmdline ? Did you add
acpi_osi="Linux" ?


Thanks a lot!
Joey Lee

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