From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LbfKT-0005wn-Us for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:14:58 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA632E04CE; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f161.google.com (mail-fx0-f161.google.com [209.85.220.161]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FA8E04CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:14:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so2002627fxm.10 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:14:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tFQFiwwiIZIdGy06UFnML1QR5rITQbiX7B7rj/ynquk=; b=xGWuDIGqqkKqOVc8wuLJNaN7VYSUS4ANnZm26JRjpN4Q5NePFF5uQVh8TGdurl/zE9 opt5ivPM2ARaeTdU7GIu070V36Sj0G0KcG+yyk4eFG9R+2wW7lecxtnUMo2unBYC89zC zEXeyxGYlSqLZBxqw9FNYi4eVLavodey3l594= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NHlxhYVHBbfl6xDkEFnBtdm1PL3XDXnCdBz4KLzl97gqU2b8uz6eZra3BKDDiM0w/8 93NMzNpR3BpYMu3oxxOWhPI65OjdJ8Zm+AkAc/RkcjPZorEAwbKhsoyhRC0rqUBCkUqB 4Dl7Fq9vbXAWnfYNcY0t2QMypyKcjGfDIql9g= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.103.172.7 with SMTP id z7mr3528222muo.129.1235412893714; Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:14:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <49A28B51.9000707@ritirata.org> References: <47a330c50902230119k5e7bffdbj7b9bff9daccabb68@mail.gmail.com> <49A28B51.9000707@ritirata.org> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:14:53 +0100 Message-ID: <47a330c50902231014u57ca425qa1419b832df50712@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to dim the display brightness From: Damian To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1172d07a-93ca-4c62-817b-94bf1a573473 X-Archives-Hash: 5d52f970812e5723d54fe67ccc01bc91 On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Antonio Quartulli wrote: > Damian ha scritto: >> Hi, >> >> I cannot find the way to dim the brightness of the display on my >> laptop. It doesn't seem to be nothing useful in /proc/acpi neither I >> can find anything in google. >> >> I would like the brightness of the screen to be dimmed when the >> computer is idle for a certain amount of time. Do you have any clues >> where I can start digging? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Damian. >> >> > It depends on your video driver. First of all, which video card have you > got? Indeed. I have an Nvidia Quadro. Sorry for not specifying that. My laptop is a Compaq 8510w. > -- > Antonio Quartulli > >