On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Sergey Manucharian <sergeym@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:47:38 -0400 > Adam Stokes <adam.stokes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> 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. > > When long time ago I had a similar problem I've added the > following into the main "case" structure in "/etc/acpi/handler.sh": > > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > video) > case "$2" in > LCD0) case "$3" in > 00000086) /usr/local/bin/brightness_up ;; > 00000087) /usr/local/bin/brightness_down ;; > *) logger "LCD0 button undefined: $1 $2 $3 $4" ;; > esac ;; > *) logger "Video button undefined: $1 $2 $3 $4" ;; > esac ;; > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > I really don't remember what "00000086" and "00000087" stand for. > The brightness changing scripts are below. > > "/usr/local/bin/brightness_up": > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > # LCD brightness up > declare -i BRIGHT > let BRIGHT=`cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness`+1 > if [ "$BRIGHT" -gt 15 ]; then > BRIGHT=15 > fi > echo $BRIGHT > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > > and "/usr/local/bin/brightness_down": > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > #!/bin/bash > # LCD brightness down > declare -i BRIGHT > let BRIGHT=`cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness`-1 > if [ "$BRIGHT" -lt 0 ]; then > BRIGHT=0 > fi > echo $BRIGHT > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > ---------------------------8<------------------------------- > > Cheers, > Sergey > > Thanks I'll give it a shot though it looks to me like this is just another way of doing: echo # >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness Thanks again -- ( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes@xxxxxxxxx )