Subject: Re: lcd contrast/brightness ioctl, gpe
To: None <port-hpcarm@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 10/26/2004 22:05:26
On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 13:32:44 +0200, Lorant Toth wrote:
> Well, then I decided that I'd like the screen to be a bit darker b/c its
> a little too bright and that would also benefit the battery... as I
> could not find settings for wsconsctl or alike (I am quite new to BSD) I
> looked at the J720 sources (J720ssp.c I think) and wrote a small app to
> manipulate the screen via ioctls.
I have private changes to wsconsctl(8) to support brightness &co.
I'll try to update, clean up and commit them after EuroBSDCon.
> I am a complete novice with NetBSD but even I could make GPE at least
> compile within a few hrs :) So a GPE port should be feasable, though I
> lack the knowledge for now...
It would be *very* nice to support GPE and Qtopia under NetBSD. It's
just there seems to be nobody to care enough about it to commit some
effort to porting them.
SY, Uwe
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