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Re: Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) support on kernel 3.8 (Ubuntu 13.04)

 

Why did you remove bumblebee?
Regards
Craig
On 23 Apr 2013 15:15, "Mario Di Raimondo" <mario.diraimondo@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> In order to use sony-acpid I changed few links in file 'sa/acpi_funcs.h';
> indeed the backlight devices has another name on my machine now... :|
>
> static char const*const ACPI_VIDEO_BRGT =
> "/sys/class/backlight/sony/brightness";
> static int const ACPI_MIN_BRGT = 0;
> static int const ACPI_MAX_BRGT = 8;
>
> Now sony-laptop-zseries module is working as well as sony-acpid daemon. I
> removed bumblebee.
>
> Mario
>
>
>
> 2013/4/23 Mario Di Raimondo <mario.diraimondo@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>>
>> 2013/4/23 Mario Di Raimondo <mario.diraimondo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>> I'm noting also that Mattia Dongili (the kernel maintainer of the
>>> sony-laptop module) has worked recently on  ALS support but I don't know if
>>> such changes are already in sources of 3.8 (maybe it is for a different
>>> model) or they are for next release. It would be nice to extract an
>>> external copy of Mattia's work that we can use on kernel 3.8.
>>
>>
>> forgot the link:
>> http://git.kamineko.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-sony-2.6.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sony-laptop-test
>>
>
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