Re: sysctl and screen brightness

[Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>]

Thanks for the ideas. At least I know where to start looking.

On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:39 AM Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> It depends on what the exact machine is. Try looking through the
> output of "sysctl hw" or "sysctl machdep" for options with
> "brightness", "backlight", or similar in their names.
>
> --
> Benny
>
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2021 at 4:12 AM Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately,no...
> > The graphics card is nVidia.
> >
> > On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 6:36 PM RVP <rvp%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2021, Todd Gruhn wrote:
> > >
> > > > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2021 18:28:59 -0400
> > > > From: Todd Gruhn <tgruhn2%gmail.com@localhost>
> > > > To: Netbsd-Users-List <netbsd-users%netbsd.org@localhost>
> > > > Subject: sysctl and screen brightness
> > > >
> > > > It was mentioned on a post (elsewhere) to set screen brightness
> > > > with the kern var "hw.acpi.acpi0.brightness" .
> > > >
> > > > I can find no such kern var. Is this possible?
> > > > If so then what is the correct kern var to set?
> > > >
> > >
> > > If you have an Intel graphics card, install the `intel-backlight'
> > > package, then:
> > >
> > > $ intel_backlight incr
> > > $ intel_backlight decr
> > >
> > > -RVP
> > >
>
>
>
> --
> Benny