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[Walter Bender]

Why does it matter that you cannot adjust the screen brightness from
the console using the special keys? You can adjust it from Sugar
without root access. The idea was to understand what limits we'd face
using the console for root access instead of a special terminal
activity. What are the Sugar/X Window actions that require root
access?

-walter

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Erik Garrison <erik at laptop.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 11:03:39AM -0700, david at lang.hm wrote:
>> numerous 'special keys' don't work at the console, including adjusting the
>> screen brightness.
>
> To get this to work we would have to push olpc-specific drivers into the
> kernel, correct?
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> Erik
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