Please think architecture...

My new laptop is a Fujitsu-Siemens and when I load the acpi_fujitsu, some new sysctls appear: hw.acpi.fujitsu.lcd_brightness: 4 hw.acpi.fujitsu.lcd_brightness_radix: 8 But these are named wrong, they should be: hw.backlight.brightness: 4 hw.backlight.brightness_radix: 8 or something like it. Backlighting is not a vendor specific feature, all laptops with LCD displays have it. If generic stuff like that end up under vendor-specific branches, we will never grow generic tools to handle backlightning but will instead have a tool for each vendor or a maddening list like the lists of SCSI controllers in devd.conf: set scsi-controller-regex "(aac|adv|adw|aha|ahb|ahc|ahd|aic|amd|amr|asr|bt|ciss|ct|dpt|\ esp|ida|iir|ips|isp|mlx|mly|mpt|ncr|ncv|nsp|stg|sym|trm|wds)\ [0-9]+"; Please don't turn FreeBSD into a nightmare of fragmented bits, just like Linux. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk at FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.