30 Aug
2014
30 Aug
'14
7:24 a.m.
On Fri, 2014-08-29 at 09:45 -0700, Len Ovens wrote:
I guess it must tie into ACPI somehow. Or would that be a silly
assumption? I believe ACPI controls hardware functions, including screen
brightness and fan controllers, while the system is running. Or am I
confused? I know on the rare occasions I've had a crash there have been
lots of ACPI Unknown (or similar) messages in my log! Did mean to look
into it further at some point...
On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, dale wrote:
No and I've looked again and again thinking it must be settable
elsewhere if it can be set from the Lenovo software/Windows and affect
all booted OSes.
This has caused various headaches I have kind
learned to live with. Main
one being relating to screen brightness. If I set a low default screen
brightness in Windows then it seems to change the range of brightness
Linux can display. This was even more noticable when running LiveUSB
distros! I actually couldn't get the screen bright enough to see what I
was doing without setting the level within Windows bright again!
Is there a setting in regular bios for screen brightness? EFI my leave
some variables around that the OS can continue to manipulat after boot...
wonderful :P
Then I read
(or skimmed) this yesterday and feel even more confused.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/UEFI
I see what you mean, every time I thought I was getting somewhere, I got
sent to yet another page. The most I got out of it was that EFI is intel's
answer to grub but with more control of the firware settings at the same
time. The old bios included calls to access some of the HW, but no one
used them as they were not muti-task/user friendly. It appears EFI does
the same thing and windows uses it and Linux does not know how to access
at least part of it. (or windows sets up its own calls within it)
But I am starting to think I should try enabling
it with a Linux
install. Especially as I plan to completely banish Windows from the
computer now... But I thought I would ask what more experienced Linux
users have to say about UEFI mode vs BIOS/Legacy mode.
You will get some I don't doubt... it may be hard to tell the truth from
FUD ;) EFI and Linux are still relatively new (3.10ish) and complaints
found in one kernel version may no longer be true.
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Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net