On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:13:15 -0400 Adam Stokes <adam.stokes@gmail.com> wrote:
So pressing the fn home/end for brightness alters :
/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness
doing an:
echo '100' >/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness
My .config for the kernel is set to:
CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_VIDEO=y CONFIG_VIDEO_OUTPUT_CONTROL=m CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO=m
lsmod shows:
thinkpad_acpi 70316 0 rfkill 11444 4 iwl3945,thinkpad_acpi led_class 4344 3 iwl3945,sdhci,thinkpad_acpi nvram 7868 1 thinkpad_acpi
dmesg shows: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.22 thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 7LETA7WW (2.07 ), EC 7KHT24WW-1.08 thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad T61, model 6464Y1E thinkpad_acpi: ACPI backlight control delay disabled thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default... thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one.
kernel is 2.6.29-ARCH
anyone know why the brightness still refuses to work?
Hi Adam, I'm using brightness control buttons every day with my ThinkPad R61. Both echo '100' >/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness echo 15 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness work for me. "xev" shows the following: keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp) keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown) I've updated the system yesterday, but brightness control works fine for long time. I used to use custom scripts launched from /etc/acpi/handler.sh long time ago since the the regular buttons did not work properly. You may want to add: keycode 233 = XF86MonBrightnessUp keycode 232 = XF86MonBrightnessDown to your ~/.Xmodmap file (though I haven't, but check with "xev") Cheers, Sergey