>> 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) > > 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 make sure you have the "video" module loaded (it's the ACPI video support). also, thinkpad_acpi, although that's shouldn't neccesseary have to do anything with the brightness buttons. -- damjan