Re: Bug on ibm-acpi and hal regarding brightness keys

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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> It is also a good idea to read the ACPI specification 3.0b, and check what
> is the ACPI standard way of dealing with display brightness. If Lenovo is
> supporting that one, it is best to just switch to it on Lenovo thinkpads.

According to the spec, the standard way to control this is through the 
_BCL, _BCM, and _BQC methods on the LCD device.  None of these methods 
is implemented in my T60.

However, there is code present to send the 0x86 and 0x87 notifications 
to the LCD device when the hotkeys are pressed.  I'm not sure why they 
bother sending these notifications when the brightness control methods 
aren't implemented.

(Caveat: I am more-or-less guessing what the code does; I haven't read 
the specification of ASL.)

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