NetBSD Brightness for LCD laptop monitor

netbsdnoob

Hello all, can somebody help me to make my FN keys to work for regulating the brightness?
Actually I even don't know how to regulate the brightness of the screen without the FN keys.
I am on a ctwm setup.

Thanks in advance.

bsduck

If your GPU is an Intel one, you probably need to install intel-backlight (nice to see it has been ported to NetBSD by the way, that's a recent addition). Then you can assign intel_backlight incr and intel_backlight decr to the keys you want. Unfortunately the Fn+F[X] shortcuts are not always recognised, in that case just assign brightness control to a similar shortcut like Ctrl+F[X].

If it's not Intel, it may work with xbacklight.

netbsdnoob

Thanks a lot, i had it instalaled but don't know why I didn't think about running it as root.
It seems I can only run it as root, is there a way I can make my user run it ? I mean following the best practices.

netbsdnoob This was apparently fixed after the Q-release, http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/sysutils/intel-backlight/Makefile?rev=1.4&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

Should come with the next one 😉

rvp

netbsdnoob is there a way I can make my user run it

Just make it setuid to root.

netbsdnoob

pin ok but what should i do at the moment? i mean should i only wait ? or is there a way to include that patch? i installed it as a binary with pkgin...

netbsdnoob There's a work arround if you'd like.
I don't know what's the recommended way but, this is how I did it when I wanted a more recent version of something that's in the main tree. I don't do this anymore, as I'm running 9.99.82 and pkgsrc-current but,

I copy the package from pkgsrc-current into the wip repo and build it there, remove the installed version and install the one that I built. That way pkgin will recognize the installed version as higher than the available on the binary repo and won't try to update it or, refresh it.