[fedora-india] Packaging wishlist

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 06:41:17 UTC 2011


On 02/03/2011 11:46 AM, Suchakra wrote:
>> I don't quite understand.   /proc should be the same across
>> distributions.  What is the platform used by the author?
> He is using Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10. He is writing directly to
> /proc/acpi/VGA/brightness (which he admits its not advisable

GNOME power manager relies on /sys/class/backlight.   Reading through
how that works and doing the same thing would be safer than mucking with
/proc

Rahul


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