Ambient light sensor configuration?

[Rick Stevens]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 19:41 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Frank Cox writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Tried that. No response in Grub, the LCD backlight begins reacting to the 
> ambient light sensor as soon as the kernel boots, even before initscripts 
> mount all the filesystems.

Can you disable it in the BIOS?

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