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TimeWalker75a, on 05 August 2012 - 08:53 AM, said:
This is not a solution for most of the Dell laptops however.
The actual brightness level can be obtained only after sleeping/waking the machine. I believe this is a framebuffer + ACPI bug of some sort. The brightness level won't store as well.
The latest version where everything worked fine was 10.6
Also, tempered, your installer script is wrong. $HOME shouldn't be the home folder, there's not LaunchAgents folder nor there is an Application folder in user's home folder.
So by default script fails to install. And even if I were to crete those folders the system has no idea how to load an agent from it.
The actual brightness level can be obtained only after sleeping/waking the machine. I believe this is a framebuffer + ACPI bug of some sort. The brightness level won't store as well.
The latest version where everything worked fine was 10.6
Also, tempered, your installer script is wrong. $HOME shouldn't be the home folder, there's not LaunchAgents folder nor there is an Application folder in user's home folder.
So by default script fails to install. And even if I were to crete those folders the system has no idea how to load an agent from it.
TimeWalker75a - Thanks for the info... again I'm new at this! Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm simply curious, but I had done some research on launchd, and the info I found had said that it's ok to use $HOME/Library/LaunchAgents, and sure enough I had that folder. I have a simple stock install of 10.6.8 and this is working perfectly on my machine. Are other installs different in this manner? I figured it would be the same on everyone's assuming you're running Snow Leopard?
JamesLitter - I'll have to try that! Except the solution I was looking for was one that I didn't need to press anything to set the brightness where I want it while giving me fine tuned adjustability. That's what this is providing me.
Again, I don't know if this will work for everyone... or even anyone else for that manner. It works great for me and I wanted to share it in case it works for someone else, too!
- Adam