On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym@rmico.com> wrote:
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
Hi Sergey, Thanks for the information, I did add those keycodes to my .Xmodmap with no change unfortunately. I also installed the acpi/acpid packages but I haven't actually rebooted yet since it seems that acpid will not run due to some devices being in use at the moment. If there are anymore ideas I would like to hear them. Thanks! -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes@gmail.com )