[PATCH] Adding backlight support for the i915 driver.

From: Ranjan1018 . <214748mv_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 16:01:13 +0100
This  patch exposes the backlight support  via a sysctl:

set the backlight to 10%:

# sysctl hw.dri.0.i915_backlight=10

hw.dri.0.i915_backlight: 25 -> 10

set the backlight to 50%:

# sysctl hw.dri.0.i915_backlight=50

hw.dri.0.i915_backlight: 10 -> 50

decrease  the current backlight value:

# sysctl hw.dri.0.i915_backlight=-1000

hw.dri.0.i915_backlight: 50 -> 43

increment the current backlight value:

# sysctl hw.dri.0.i915_backlight=1000

hw.dri.0.i915_backlight: 43 -> 51

# sysctl hw.dri.0.i915_backlight=1000

hw.dri.0.i915_backlight: 51 -> 60

I am running this path on for about a week without issue.

This path can be found at:
https://github.com/maurizio-emmex/i915_backlight_freebsd

I thank Elizabeth Myers, elizabeth at interlinked dot me, for the idea of
adding the backlight support for the i915 driver and for the original patch.

Regards,
Maurizio
Received on Fri Mar 27 2015 - 14:01:14 UTC

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