[arch-general] Systemd screen brightness

Thomas Bächler thomas at archlinux.org
Thu Aug 16 05:06:04 EDT 2012


Am 16.08.2012 04:40, schrieb Michael Nawrocki:
> On 08/15/2012 05:02 AM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
>> Am 15.08.2012 03:30, schrieb Michael Nawrocki:
>>> I'm trying to get my laptop backlight keys (fn+f6/f7) to adjust the
>>> brightness of my toshiba laptop backlight.
>> I am curious. With 3.3 and earlier, my keys used to adjust brightness on
>> their own. Since 3.4, they don't, and only work in KDE, but not on the
>> console.
>>
>> Was it a deliberate kernel change that the brightness keys have no effect?
>>
>>
> I had the same problem as you did; hence the script I wrote. I haven't
> tried the newest kernel yet, and I couldn't find much information on why
> the kernel update messed that up...

Maybe it's the Toshiba ACPI driver - I have a Toshiba, too.

It's not too bad because KDE catches the brightness keys and takes care
of them. It's just annoying when I use the console.


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