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[Slither2008]

It's great that this issue has been addressed to some degree of success with intel GMA owners.

But may i please ask that owners of nvidia 7600go who have this successfully working using a hack of sorts please post how.

Or if there are some great minds out there that could please help out or at least give a basic run through of how nvidia owners code obtain their own pci lcd registers for testing ?

Thanks in advance!

[x2PhaNToM]

Any sucess with X3100?

[shanokee]

x2PhaNToM, on Nov 9 2008, 11:05 AM, said:

Any sucess with X3100?

Turbo stated on his website that he has developed a driver. Does anyone have this? I wrote an email to him, if he replies I will quote here.

[JackHair]

I have brightness control working on HP 6720s with X3100 GFX using DSDT patcher.
The DSDT.aml activating it can be found in this topic: http://forum.insanel...mp;#entry972116

Mike

[cele_82]

JackHair, on Dec 3 2008, 07:22 AM, said:

I have brightness control working on HP 6720s with X3100 GFX using DSDT patcher.
The DSDT.aml activating it can be found in this topic: http://forum.insanel...mp;#entry972116

Mike

what??? with all the hardware CI/QE? please post how you reach that and also what's DSDT?

[NIXin]

Any news in this department?

[Intelslacker]

any way to get the brightness controls in OSX working on an HP dv9700? funct* work but when you unplug the power it does not autodim.

nvidia 8400M GS 256MB

[qzl722]

any update?

[8solo5]

any news for intel x3100??

[OSX86GURU]

found this on another site, read hagglebeefs posts. Apparently they've found a rudimentary way to change backlight. http://ipis-osx.wiki...ghtness-control

[Freaxed]

Hi all,
following the idea from idoc, I patched my GMAX3100FB in order use brightness (for now I can only set the value using Reggie SE or a bash script with setpci, please read what cele_82 wrote, no Fn keys working yet).

Please note that it's for SnowLeopard 10.6.2 and ONLY for 32bit (the 64bit part is not present)

http://www.mediafire...php?yuyytykzmnw

Hope this can help, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ19VN.
Enjoy

[yushir]

Freaxed, on Jan 28 2010, 08:01 PM, said:

Hi all,
following the idea from idoc, I patched my GMAX3100FB in order use brightness (for now I can only set the value using Reggie SE or a bash script with setpci, please read what cele_82 wrote, no Fn keys working yet).

Please note that it's for SnowLeopard 10.6.2 and ONLY for 32bit (the 64bit part is not present)

http://www.mediafire...php?yuyytykzmnw

Hope this can help, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ19VN.
Enjoy

Could you upload a diff? This works perfect on an HP 6720s, the brightness call is handled by pure ACPI so it works great (you don't get the apple's brightness slide bar, but it's fine).

Our keys Fn+F7 and Fn+F8 do the job.

[Benjan]

Freaxed, on Jan 29 2010, 03:01 AM, said:

Hi all,
following the idea from idoc, I patched my GMAX3100FB in order use brightness (for now I can only set the value using Reggie SE or a bash script with setpci, please read what cele_82 wrote, no Fn keys working yet).

Please note that it's for SnowLeopard 10.6.2 and ONLY for 32bit (the 64bit part is not present)

http://www.mediafire...php?yuyytykzmnw

Hope this can help, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ19VN.
Enjoy

hello, friend, Can you patch the one for x4500 as well? thanks in advance

[lotech]

Did anyone have some progress with a little app to adjust brightness?
The setpci command works perfectly for me (Vaio VPC-W), and for now I'm just using automator shortcuts to run the commands to set 10% or 100%. It would be good if there was a little status bar app to tweak the setting (beyond my coding skills sorry).

[tux_in_my_heart]

Freaxed, on Jan 28 2010, 08:01 PM, said:

Hi all,
following the idea from idoc, I patched my GMAX3100FB in order use brightness (for now I can only set the value using Reggie SE or a bash script with setpci, please read what cele_82 wrote, no Fn keys working yet).

Please note that it's for SnowLeopard 10.6.2 and ONLY for 32bit (the 64bit part is not present)

http://www.mediafire...php?yuyytykzmnw

Hope this can help, I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ19VN.
Enjoy

Wich card have you?, is x3100 ? wich revision id is rev 0x00003 or 0x0000c please post your specifications.

[emufreak]

Intelslacker, on May 1 2009, 10:43 AM, said:

any way to get the brightness controls in OSX working on an HP dv9700? funct* work but when you unplug the power it does not autodim.

nvidia 8400M GS 256MB

Same question for me. I'm working with Lion however. What would be the setpci command to controll the backlight for this Graphics Card?

[ariethekid]

I have brightness and QE/CI working on my x3100 as well.  With the slider bar and onscreen brightness icon when changing brightness. Only problem is key mapping.  I can only lower the brightness with the keyboard, I can't increase it. I have to go to the display preferences to fix this.  I wonder if there is a way to modify the keyboard mapping to fix this.

[ariethekid]

So I got it working great. My brightness keys are Scroll Lock (Dimmer) and Pause/Break (Brighter). I blended two ApplePS2Controller file together. (Used the mouse and trackpad from one (for REAL 2finger scrolling that I got from an hpmini site made by merklot, [not that voodoops2 crap]) and I used the ApplePS2Keyboard from voodoops2 and put all of that in the plugin folder for the merklot PS2Controller and got it working that way. I'm sure there are other methods but this one is close to the real thing.

So in summary, display prefs slider works, brightness keys work, and the brightness thing comes on the display when i change it.

What I did

-Used an ApplePS2Controller.kext made by merklot http://www.mydellmin...ad-drivers.html
-Put ApplePS2Keyboard.kext from VoodooPS2 (ApplePS2Controller.kext/plugins/ApplePS2Keyboard.kext) from here http://www.insanelym...howtopic=175372 into the merklot ApplePS2Controller.kext/Plugins/
-Used a DSDT Edit (adding brightness, edit is found in the program) with DSDTSe found here http://www.osx86.es/?p=610

Repair permissions and reboot

don't forget to chown -R root:wheel and chmod -R 755 on any kext you put in the extensions folder. Works if you put it in extra/extensions as well.

Working on a Fujitsu T4220 Tablet PC with x3100 rev 03 dev 2a02

If you have this laptop DSDT dump doesn't really work on OSX. You need Phoenix bios editor and pull it out of a bios update from the fujitsu website and edit that dsdt to see any changes. Working on getting sound working properly (audio switching with headphones) otherwise everything works its just annoying to keep changing outputs in the system prefs.