Brightness

[sinister]

How do I change the brightness in rockbox, I went to into settings > Display > LCD but I could not find anything about changing the brightness. I need to change it to a lower setting because it drains the battery quicker.

[J2383]

How do I change the brightness in rockbox, I went to into settings > Display > LCD but I could not find anything about changing the brightness. I need to change it to a lower setting because it drains the battery quicker.

Since you didn't mention what player you're using I'm going to assume you have an iPod since that's what I have.

Here's a patch that will help you http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/5234

and you can use this to help you compile. http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SimpleGuideToCompiling

[sinister]

Yes but the compiling guide is for windows only, I have a MAC.

[Yotto]

Senab just updated his unofficial build, find it in the Unofficial Builds forum.  It contains this wonderful patch.

Note, using an unofficial build means you can't ask for help here.  If you have a problem, you're pretty much stuck with it (Or you can go back to the official daily builds)

[GodEater]

Yes but the compiling guide is for windows only, I have a MAC.

You can still follow that guide pretty much on a Mac - you just ignore the bit about installing Cygwin - since on a Mac you don't need it - OSX is already pretty well Posix compliant.

[sinister]

Yes but the compiling guide is for windows only, I have a MAC.

You can still follow that guide pretty much on a Mac - you just ignore the bit about installing Cygwin - since on a Mac you don't need it - OSX is already pretty well Posix compliant.

To be honest I am not to familiar with the mac language/coding, and I am pretty sure those are no the exact same lines of code for mac. So I don't know the mac equivalence code to those windows lines...can anyone help ?=S

[xlarge]

You can still follow that guide pretty much on a Mac - you just ignore the bit about installing Cygwin - since on a Mac you don't need it - OSX is already pretty well Posix compliant.

To be honest I am not to familiar with the mac language/coding, and I am pretty sure those are no the exact same lines of code for mac. So I don't know the mac equivalence code to those windows lines...can anyone help ?=S

There aren't any Windows lines (if you'd do what GodEater told you - disregard cygwin), those are standard shell/bash commands wich will work just fine under osx aswell.

Honestly, i do not want to be rude but: If you can't figure that out you won't be able to compile anyhow.
Use an already built rockbox with those patches instead - as Yotto said.