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From: Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:51:19 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g2h49bf44f11004230951x3e04dcd1g4e65b34b55b68b92@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1272013261.27692.8.camel@bulislaw-laptop>

>> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the
>> keyboard shortcuts.  Any ideas on that?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
> Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it).
> in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for thinkpad
> there is extra one in "thinkpad specific acpi" maybe You have something
> similar for Yours stuff.

It's a Dell Vostro 1320.  The keyboard shortcuts to change brightness
were working great until I enabled DRM in the kernel.  Can you tell me
where in the kernel those options can be found, or part of the
variable name that defines them?

> And (its only my private opinion - could base on wrong facts :P) dont be
> used to hal because the 1.8 xorg-server dont like it any more,
> preferring udev, and future versions wouldn't probably support hal at
> all.
>
> Lately i delete hal USE and now iam using udev - excepting auto mounting
> usb stick etc.

Can anyone confirm that as users we should be moving away from hal?

- Grant



  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-23 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-19 22:06 [gentoo-user] Updates = slow firefox Grant
2010-04-19 22:12 ` deface
2010-04-19 22:43   ` Grant
2010-04-20  1:24     ` deface
2010-04-20 18:15       ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-20 18:51         ` Grant
2010-04-20 19:14           ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-21 11:26         ` Adam
2010-04-21 13:23           ` Mick
2010-04-21 19:07           ` Grant
2010-04-21 19:57             ` Mike Edenfield
2010-04-21 20:11               ` Grant
2010-04-22 16:47                 ` Grant
2010-04-22 20:18                   ` Mick
2010-04-23  9:01                   ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-23 16:51                     ` Grant [this message]
2010-04-23 17:08                       ` erdunand
2010-04-23 17:13                       ` Paul Hartman
2010-04-23 17:37                         ` Grant
2010-04-23 17:46                           ` Mike Edenfield
2010-04-23 18:21                             ` Grant
2010-04-23 18:38                             ` Dale
2010-04-24  7:33                       ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-27  2:10                         ` Grant
2010-04-27 17:00                           ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-27 17:37                             ` Grant
2010-04-27 21:31                               ` Bartosz Szatkowski
2010-04-28 16:57                                 ` Grant

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