milk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
It is also possible to make the monitor brightness show up as a normal system setting by using a kernel module. The other thing I read when I did this is that monitor flash memory that stores the settings, like brightness, is often particularly bad, having only 1000s of cycles. If you do use this, just keep that in mind
Novocirab@feddit.org 2 days ago
I’m curious about both things you mention. Do you have the name of the kernel module at hand? And can you point me to a source on the monitor flash memory (as I couldn’t find anything on that)?
milk@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
The kernel module is ddcci-driver-linux
This is the Reddit post I read. It links to a Hacker News forum post as well that discusses it. Really it shouldn’t be much of a problem unless you’re using dynamic brightness that is overzealous
Novocirab@feddit.org 1 day ago
Thank you, that’s interesting and good to know. At least it’s probably a good idea to not increment/decrement properties regularly in very small steps (like 2% at a time). I suspect the 5% steps I’m using for brightness should be fine, but I’ll implement some shortcuts that go in bigger steps just to be sure.