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[Joël Bourquard <joel.bourquard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes...  it supports all individual values from 0 to 247 (inclusive).

Having just values 0-8 is just too coarse :-)

Best regards,

Joël



On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Di, 26 Jul 2011, Joël Bourquard wrote:
> > Oh, and here's one thing I've just noticed with the latest module, when
> > compared to the vanilla 2.6.39 module from the kernel:  the
> > /sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness  setting is very rough, I think,
> only 9
> > steps.  Would it be possible to have more steps?  The vanilla module used
> to
> > have 8-9 steps and then they changed it to something like 32 or so, which
> > was great imho.
>
> Does the vanilla 3.0 kernel module have more steps?
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
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