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Rockbox General => Rockbox General Discussion => Topic started by: sinister on January 03, 2007, 02:21:29 PM

Title: Brightness
Post by: sinister on January 03, 2007, 02:21:29 PM
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.
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: J2383 on January 03, 2007, 03:34:50 PM
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
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: sinister on January 03, 2007, 05:29:21 PM
Yes but the compiling guide is for windows only, I have a MAC.
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: Yotto on January 03, 2007, 06:03:29 PM
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)
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: GodEater on January 04, 2007, 06:54:51 AM
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.
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: sinister on January 05, 2007, 12:59:27 AM
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
Title: Re: Brightness
Post by: xlarge on January 05, 2007, 03:07:43 AM
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.