* reducing display brightness freerunner at boot up
Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Alex. Filed under openmoko.
When the Freerunner of Openmoko boots, the display is very bright sucking out the battery or making you blind in the night 
The brightness can be reduced by the command
echo 80 > /sys/class/backlight/gta02-bl/brightness
I put this line into the file /etc/rc.local and set a link S99rc.local to it in /etc/rcS.d to execute it automatically (do not forget to make the file executable with chmod +x rc.local). A little script adjusting the brightness depending on the date time or at the users wishes would be nice. Currently the display is hardly visible in bright Indian sunlight.
April 17th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
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