RehabMan
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right acpibacklight...
Are you talking about your brightness keys? Yes
I didn't use acpibacklight prior to today. brightness slider never worked. do not see brightness sun
OK. Your "brightness keys" (that do work) are BIOS controlled. I'm going to ignore those for a while since they are much as if there was hardware slider on the display itself (OS is not involved). Interested only in OS X controls here.
install acpibacklight kext using 2.08 pnlf brightness patch - sysprefs/display brightness slider worked.
This is interesting and potentially useful for further improvements. If you could:
- install debug ACPIBacklight.kext
- apply 2.08 PNLF "Brightness Fix" from the repo
- reboot and capture ioreg: http://www.tonymacx86.com/audio/58368-guide-how-make-copy-ioreg.html
Because this configuration of ACPIBacklight.kext works, it means your original DSDT backlight methods work (if PNLF does not provide _BCL/_BQC/_BCM, ACPIBacklight attempts to use ones found elsewhere in DSDT)
If I can figure out what those methods do, what hardware registers they manipulate I can write a better PNLF patch for your machine and perhaps come to a better understanding how it works...
applied 2.09 hd3000/hd4000 patch. install acpibacklight kext. sysprefs/display brightness slider does not work, but restoring previous light level does. is it the hd3k/4k patch disabling the sysprefs/display slider somehow?
It means that the hardware registers (IGPU PWM backlight controls) are not used on your machine or need to be setup a different way.
the function keys with the brightness sun slider (Fn/Home(Pause) and FN/PgUp(Scrlk)) have no affect on brightness.
These keys should work in the above scenario (2.08 PNLF+ ACPIBacklight) where SysPrefs->Displays is working. Feel free to test it a bit...