Auto backlight management?

John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Thu Apr 24 22:43:53 EDT 2008


Bert misread the spec.  When the backlight is switched off, the screen
automatically switches to B&W mode.   Why would you want to take
that out of the control of the user ?

wad

On Apr 24, 2008, at 10:39 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

> Bert Freudenberg <bert at freudenbergs.de> writes:
>
>> [...]  The XO does not have an ambient light sensor. The backlight
>> is not turned off automatically in sunlight. [...]
>
> Opportunistic use of the on-board camera and the time-of-day clock
> could yield such heuristics.
>
> - FChE
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