Backlight support on Dell laptops

[Erik Andrén]

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Hi Stefan.

Stefan Nuxoll skrev:
> I believe many of us would appreciate it if you would help participate in
> ubuntu development.  I'm not sure what team you would need to join to help
> with that specific problem, but we can always use more developers.

I've tried to the best of my abilities, creating a blueprint in
launchpad and explained the issues in the concerned bugs, but so far the
response I've received from the Ubuntu devs are virtually nil.

Please do tell me what more I can do to make this go mainline. The
changes needed are not that complicated.

/Erik

> 
> On 5/13/07, Erik Andrén <erik.andren at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
> Hi.
> Backlight support on Dell laptops has recently made great strides in
> working under linux. The 0.5.9 release of HAL in combine with the
> libsmbios package and the loading of the kernel module dcdbas enables
> backlight to work in Ubuntu.
> 
> As of now, there is a backport of the 0.5.9 in Feisty Fawn.
> Unfortunately, the dell backlight addon is missing from this package.
> The cause is probably that the build machine lacked the
> libsmbios-library.
> 
> I would like to know how I can participate in getting the HAL backport
> rebuilt with Dell backlight support added, making libsmbios a dependency
> of HAL and finally make Ubuntu autoload the dcdbas module.
> 
> With kind regards
> Erik Andrén
>>
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