Re: thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]



On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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
>

Only way i could solve my issue was to turn up brightness during boot
sequence, but once the kernel loaded all brightness functions keys
stopped working. No special settings used, and the default arch 2.6.29
kernel installed.

-- 
( adam stokes ) || ( adam.stokes@xxxxxxxxx )


[Index of Archives]     [Linux Wireless]     [Linux Kernel]     [ATH6KL]     [Linux Bluetooth]     [Linux Netdev]     [Kernel Newbies]     [Share Photos]     [IDE]     [Security]     [Git]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Yosemite News]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Linux ATA RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]
  Powered by Linux