From 5f7fe5de181961eae2bb2bb12bc96a1f49d5c395 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Srikant Patnaik
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:32:52 +0530
Subject: moved brightness-control to this repository

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+Brightness control
+==================
+
+Add the following line in `/etc/rc.local` to make it a startup job ::
+
+	sudo chmod o+w /sys/class/backlight/<somefile>/brightness
+
+Now with a simple bash script we can `echo` suitable values to
+above `brightness` file and change the brightness of the screen. It would
+be a good practice to know the max brightness allowed by reading the file ::
+
+	cat /sys/class/backlight/<somefile>/max_brightness
+
+Now to set brightness we use ::
+
+	echo 50 > /sys/class/backlight/<somefile>/brightness
+
+
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