> I've similar problem here with my X60s. > > echo 'up' >! /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness > > works fine but using the hotkeys has no effect. I now realized that xev > doesn't return a keycode for FN+HOME and FN+END at all. FN only gives a > keycode as well as HOME and END on its own do. > > However, i'm using Vanilla, so don't expect this to be an arch related > problem. AFAIK things concerning brightness adjustment changed for > 2.6.29 in the acpi/video branch. Do you have some special settings enabled?? Because you shouldn't. on my X60s everything works fine in console and X (with any sufficiently recent intel driver - maybe 2.3 was too old - I don't remember) -- damjan
