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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 ) > -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes@xxxxxxxxx )
