[OmniBook] LCD feature not working on a Omnibook XE3

[David Romacho]

Hi,

I am the owner of an HP Omnibook XE3 GC. I installed Xubuntu 6.06 LTS on 
it, then I donwloaded the omnibook source code tarball and build it 
without problems. When I load it, everything is OK.

My concern is about the lcd feature. I am able to read the lcd status 
and write but nothing happens in the real world: the lcd backlight 
remains at the same level. If I change the level by using the function 
keys, the backlight level changes, but the lcd file doesn't get 
modified. So basically the lcd file in /proc/omnibook seems to be 
disconnected from the real lcd backlight. Am I missing something ?

Ah, I am able to turn off the lcd by doing:

echo off > /proc/omnibook/lcd

But this is the only feature that seems to be working for the lcd.

Do you know of any other case like this ? Am I doing something wrong 
(probably yes:)
I would appreciate very much any help or suggestion about how to have 
this feature running in my Omnibook.


Regards,

   David
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