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Old 12-08-2018, 11:25 AM   #4
Dominique U
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hius07 View Post
Thanks. Unfortunately, that does not seem to work on PW4 for making the frontlight less bright.

Code:
cat /sys/class/backlight/bl/brightness
(which seems to be the frontlight device on PW4, the path has changed) gives 20 on minimum brightness (level 1 in the UI), and gives 0 when the frontlight is off (level 0 in the UI).

So I assumes that
Code:
echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/bl/brightness
would give me a very low brightness. Unfortunately, that is not the case. Putting 1 here gives the same brightness as 20. (But the file works, putting 0 switches the backlight off, putting 1 switches it on again.)

So, by just writing numbers into this file, it seems that I cannot switch the frontlight to a low intensity (comparable to PW3).

Does anyone have an idea what else I could try? The bright light is a strong disappointment for me, I am missing my PW3.
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