[arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

[Adam Stokes]

Another weird thing I noticed was I can actually set the brightness
with the keys all the way up until the grub screen. But after that
they fail to work.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM, Adam Stokes <adam.stokes at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym at 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!
>
>
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