Re: Little brightness issue on Pavilion dv2889

[Steven Bellovin <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Tue, 26 May 2009 21:58:02 +0200
David DEMELIER <demelier.david%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running NetBSD 5.0 Stable on my Pavilion dv2899, the acpi works
> almost perfectly (battery time, temperature works fine) But I just
> have a little issue with the brightness, in fact if I want to
> decrease/increase my brightness using the fn keybinds it doesn't
> change immediatly, I need to go in a tty and come back to X (seems
> like `refresh' the screen).
> 

I wonder if that machine needs a powerd script to do that, perhaps via
xbacklight.  But that in turn might need changes to powerd or even a
driver to pass that event to user level.