Comment 84 for bug 95444

yleetiny: current NVClock CVS includes a Smartdimmer utility. The code of
this utility is based on the old smartdimmer code and uses the new NVClock
backend (with Geforce 8 support).

2008/10/28 yleetiny <email address hidden>

> Does somebody have tried to patch smartdimmer too?
>
> I was originally working on HAL configuration to make the FN-keys & the
> gnome brightness applet & the on-screen display work with smartdimmer. I
> made a .deb for it like somebody said.
>
> I am actually trying to use "nvclock" instead with the workaround ( sudo
> cp -r ~/.nvclock /root ) . It works but there is a significant cpu
> consumption that i didn't found in smartdimmer.
>
> So if somebody can make something like smartdimmer or patch it for the
> nvidia 8 cards. It will be great.
>
> Here is a testing package to use nvclock.
>
> PS: you need to have the nvclock cvs version working, install the package
> and do :
> sudo cp -r ~/.nvclock /root
> sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart
>
>
> ** Attachment added: "deb file"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/18963808/sony-nvclock_0.3.beta.deb
>
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> No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics
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