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[ivik]

Hi all.

There are 2 drivers for brightness:
1.
For those who have apple brightness slider working (max backlight>0 in ioreg) can use GenericBrightness.kext.zip. There is also VoodooPS2Controller with mapped keys for brightness for hp, acer, dell, samsung and lg.
To make native slider work, you need to add PNLF device:

		Device (PNLF)
		{
			Name (_HID, EisaId ("APP0002"))
			Name (_CID, "backlight")
			Name (_UID, 0x0A)
			Name (_STA, 0x0B)
		}

After that you need to find where _BCM, _BCQ and _BCL methods are and what graphics you use, since a lot of dsdt had multiple methods, because there is support for multiple cards in bios.

If your graphics is (for example) GFX0 (search it from ioreg), then you should find that device in dsdt. Under that device, there are other devices (usually LCD, CRT, TV...). Look for the device that has those methods (_BCM, _BCQ and _BCL) and then put Name (_HID, EisaId ("LCD1234")).
Example:

				Device (LCD)
				{
					Name (_ADR, 0x0400)
				Name (_HID, EisaId ("LCD1234")) //this must be added
					Method (_DCS, 0, NotSerialized)
					{
					}
					Method (_DGS, 0, NotSerialized)
					{
					}
					Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized)
					{
					}
				   Method (_BCM, 1, NotSerialized)
				   {
				   }
				   Method (_BQC, 0, NotSerialized)
				   {
				   }

2.
The second one (NoSlider.zip) can control brightness without PNLF. But you still have to add some code to dsdt.
Only Name (_HID, EisaId ("LCD1234")) is needed, like in first method.

In NoSlider there are also 2 apps:
console utility brightness with parameters:

brightness get => returns current brightness
brightness set yourbrightness => sets your brightness (from 0 to 100)
brightness up => one step up (usefull for keyboard mapping)
brightness down => one step down

Second app is Brightness Menulet. It is menubar plugin with slider for setting brightness.

Attached Files

•  NoSlider.zip   45.55K   2044 downloads
•  GenericBrightness.kext.zip   17.85K   2680 downloads
•  VoodooPS2.zip   118.29K   1388 downloads
•  Sources.zip   454.06K   740 downloads

[sw170]

Hi ivik,
thanks for sharing, this sounds promising but it doesn't work with my Pavilion laptop
with PNLF code:

		Device (PNLF)
		{
			Name (_HID, EisaId ("APP0002"))
			Name (_CID, "backlight")
			Name (_UID, 0x0A)
			Name (_STA, 0x0B)
			Name (BCL1, Package (0x0D)
			{
				0x5F, 
				0x2B, 
				0x14, 
				0x18, 
				0x1C, 
				0x20, 
				0x25, 
				0x2B, 
				0x32, 
				0x3B, 
				0x45, 
				0x51, 
				0x5F
			})
			Name (BCL2, Package (0x0D)
			{
				0x64, 
				0x2E, 
				0x14, 
				0x19, 
				0x1F, 
				0x24, 
				0x29, 
				0x2E, 
				0x34, 
				0x3D, 
				0x48, 
				0x55, 
				0x64
			})
			Method (SBCM, 1, NotSerialized)
			{
				Store (Arg0, \_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC.BRTL)
				Store (Arg0, Z00B)
				TRAP (0x1C)
			}
						Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized)
						{
							If (LEqual (PTPE, One))
							{
								Return (BCL1)
							}
							Else
							{
								Return (BCL2)
							}
						}

						Method (_BCM, 1, NotSerialized)
						{
							SBCM (Arg0)
						}

						Method (_BQC, 0, NotSerialized)
						{
							Return (\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC.BRTL)
						}
		}

DSDT file here

thanks in advance for any suggestions

regards
s

[ivik]

What does dmesg say about max brightness and levels?

It look like your Pavilion also writes brightness to EC like my acer.
But it is weird that it writes that high values... Mine for 0x64 (100% brightness) writes F (15) to EC (BRTS register).

Try runing RW-everything under windows and watch EC register for changes when brightness is changed.

Also... try with different _BCL return tables... Under _BCL just write:

Method (_BCL, 0, NotSerialized)
						{
								Return (BCL1)
						}

[piyokos]

Can't find PNLF device.

Vostro 3700...

Vanilla DSDT attached.

Thanks

Attached Files

•  DSDT_v02_DELL_WN09_00000070_INTL_20051117.aml.zip   16.46K   102 downloads

[ivik]

piyokos, on Nov 11 2010, 11:06 PM, said:

Can't find PNLF device.

Vostro 3700...

Vanilla DSDT attached.

Thanks

Try this dsdt:

Attached Files

•  DSDT_v02_DELL_WN09_00000070_INTL_20051117.aml.zip   16.5K   202 downloads

[darylz]

ivik, on Nov 11 2010, 11:22 PM, said:

Try this dsdt:

Both working with slider as well as the sun Plus Fn keys with appropriate dsdt modification and kext in extra
Thnx,
Lg x130,Snow Leopard 10.6.5

[Scorpy22]

Doesn't work. I've added a PNLF device with _BCM, _BQC, _BCL methods but the slider is stuck at 100%.

Also, I've got the following message in my /var/log/kernel.log

kernel[0]: Acpi brightness levels:8, lowest brightness:7, highest brightness:100 
kernel[0]: We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting...

...
kernel[0]: We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting...

Here's my DSDT:
MyDSDT

Thanks

[ivik]

Scorpy22, on Nov 12 2010, 09:11 AM, said:

Doesn't work. I've added a PNLF device with _BCM, _BQC, _BCL methods but the slider is stuck at 100%.

Also, I've got the following message in my /var/log/kernel.log

kernel[0]: Acpi brightness levels:8, lowest brightness:7, highest brightness:100 
kernel[0]: We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting...

...
kernel[0]: We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting...

Here's my DSDT:
MyDSDT

Thanks

Slider doesn't move or brightness doesn't change?

[Scorpy22]

Brightness doesn't change and the slider keeps getting back to 100%

[ivik]

Scorpy22, on Nov 12 2010, 10:23 AM, said:

Brightness doesn't change and the slider keeps getting back to 100%

You have GMA4500?

[Scorpy22]

No, I'm on a Samsung R530 with a Nvidia G310M and I'm running 10.6.5

[ivik]

Scorpy22, on Nov 12 2010, 11:06 AM, said:

No, I'm on a Samsung R530 with a Nvidia G310M and I'm running 10.6.5

Do you have brightness like this  in your ioreg? http://img87.imagesh...69/screenql.png

Try this dsdt:

Attached Files

•  SAMSUNG_R530_DSDT.aml.zip   13.78K   189 downloads

[joerg74]

Hi ivik,
where is this DSDT.aml from? I also have a Samsung R530 (-Nion, with Core i3 330M CPU) and I am wondering if I can use this too?
Greetings Jörg

[ivik]

This is Scorpy22's dsdt which he uploaded few posts up.

[riws]

Thx ivik, great work!

How about without the "We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting..." Log Kext?

*For MSI Wind U100 its SBRG.EC.BRLV

[ivik]

riws, on Nov 12 2010, 03:08 PM, said:

Thx ivik, great work!

How about without the "We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting..." Log Kext?

*For MSI Wind U100 its SBRG.EC.BRLV

I'll build it some time without this. Still testing it.  
Do you have brightness keys mapped and onscreen "sun" image (with progress changing) when changing with keys?

Thnx for testing and reporting success.

[Scorpy22]

ivik, on Nov 12 2010, 11:40 AM, said:

Do you have brightness like this  in your ioreg? http://img87.imagesh...69/screenql.png

Try this dsdt:

No changes with this DSDT, Here's my IOReg screenshot.


Min, max, and value are at 0, I suppose the problem comes from here.

[riws]

ivik, on Nov 12 2010, 04:19 PM, said:

I'll build it some time without this. Still testing it.  
Do you have brightness keys mapped and onscreen "sun" image (with progress changing) when changing with keys?

Thnx for testing and reporting success.

Nope, but I took Spark for that.

[ivik]

Yeah... this is problem. OSX reads this brightness values from somewhere. I just monitor values from ioreg and then call acpi methods.

Maybe adding something to dsdt (_DSM in graphics section) would fix that...

[Zprood]

@Ivik
Thank for this stuff, My graphic card is intel x3100 ,I can use Fn key with up &down to adjust the brightness ,but no "sun" appears.Here is the logs :

Nov 12 22:24:00 Zproods-MacBook kernel[0]: IG: Invalid firmware max backlight setting
Nov 12 22:24:00 Zproods-MacBook kernel[0]: Acpi brightness levels:16, lowest brightness:20, highest brightness:100 
Nov 12 22:24:01 Zproods-MacBook kernel[0]: We still don't have brightness entry in ioreg... waiting...

And I manually add PNLF device in the dsdt file ,also add those code you mentioned above .
Here is my dsdt file :  dsdt.dsl.zip   22.16K   85 downloads

Thanks.

regards.