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[Bug 385723] Re: no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)

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From: Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:24:33 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 385723 <385723@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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The hal support for smartdimmer isn't going away anytime soon, so for
these platforms it's perhaps possible to add back the gnome-power-
manager support for it. That's why there is a gnome-power-manager task
here.

But I see no chance of devkit-power ever getting support for
smartdimmer. The entire idea of smartdimmer is a hack, device drivers
belong into kernel just as any other backlight interface the kernel
offers. If X.org merges the smartdimmer logic in its xbacklight support,
that's fine of course.

This shouldn't affect KDE at all at the moment. KDE 4 uses hal.

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no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723
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