6 .Nd Control backlight via
12 adjusts the backlight brightness via Linux's
14 filesystem. It is useful if you're not running X.
16 Change the backlight with
28 .Pa /sys/class/backlight/backlight/brightness
29 is writable by the current user, and that
33 reading results in one line: an ASCII-represented integer from 0 to 128
34 representing current backlight brightness, and
36 writing a line in the same format changes the brightness.
39 Probably. This hasn't been tested with X, hasn't been tested on your
40 hardware, relies on Linux-specific features, etc.
42 .An S. Gilles Aq Mt sgilles@math.umd.edu