On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym@xxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxx )
