Re: [iPAQ] screen brightness

From: Mark G. Saye <markgsaye.a.t.yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Sep 10 2001 - 01:03:22 EDT

Chris McKillop wrote:
>
> Actually, if you look in the code to the kernel it "scales" the input
> values for birghtness to reduce battery usage! ;)

Well, without wanting to offend anyone, that is rather 'unfriendly'.
Surely it should be the user's choice what the brightness is set to ...

I think that limiting the possibilities only makes Linux look
'incorrect'.

And I agree with Russ Nelson, allowing a darker minimum would also be
good. The software should allow any value that the hardware can handle.

Maybe some indication of how much power is being used at minimum/maximum
brightness would be more informative to end-users.

Is it possible to 'correct' the kernel code - should anyone (i.e. me)
want to roll their own kernel? i.e. which file(s) need modification?

> On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:06:34PM -0700, Mark G. Saye wrote:
> >
> > I'm investigating why the screen brightness under Linux is so much less
> > 'bright' than under WinCE.

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Mark G. Saye
markgsaye@yahoo.com
Received on Sun Sep 9 21:06:42 2001

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