Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 03 Oct 2007, Chris Hanson wrote: >> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: >>> Better use this one instead... >> The patch made no difference; it still gets stuck generating EINVAL. > > :-( > >> I forgot to mention that, although the /proc and /sys entries are unable >> to change the brightness, the hotkeys work fine, and the correct >> brightness level is shown by actual_brightness and brightness. > > So the driver is always reading the correct brightness from hardware, but it > is still going bonkers when trying to set the brightness. Hmm. Weird that I > cannot reproduce this, no matter how much I try. Is there a possibility of > doing a quick try with just 2.6.22.9 + thinkpad-acpi without the other > patches, just to make sure it is not interacting in surprising ways with > something else? I built it with exactly those things and nothing else. The problem still occurs. Let me play a little and see what else I can find out. > Also, what if you remove the video driver temporarily, does it work? Also, > using the keys, do you have 8 or 16 brightness levels? By "removing the video driver" I assume you mean "modprobe -r video"? If so, that makes no difference. With the keys, I have 8 levels, as expected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
