Ambient light sensor configuration?

[Frank Cox]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:57:55 -0500
Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:

> My laptop seemingly has an ambient light sensor, of some kind, and the 
> kernel apparently knows about it, but won't let me access it. 

Are you sure it's kernel-controlled?  Perhaps it's 100% hardware.

Try covering that sensor when you're looking at Grub and see if it brightens
or dims the screen then.

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