Re: ThinkPad X61 backlight brightness glitches

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On Fri, 28 Dec 2007, Ben Liblit wrote:
> brightness adjustment keys (Fn+Home, Fn+End), the value in 
> "actual_brightness" changes over the range 0-15.  However, the actual 

actual_brightness is what is in the hardware right now.

brightness is the last brightness request you made, which is either what the
kernel is trying to get actual_brightness to be, or (after it managed to set
the brightness to the level you requested), garbage.

Yeah, it is weird.  I don't like it either.  In fact, the "simple
interfaces" for led and brightness control throuhg sysfs are incomplete and
a major pain in the ass.  But there is not much I can do about it.

> display brightness remains unchanged.  I can change the backlight level 
> manually by echoing a value from 0-15 into "brightness", but if I don't 
> do that, "actual_brightness" changes without changing the actual brightness.

Eh? actual_brightness is changing but the *display* backlight level (not the
value of any sysfs files, the actual screen brightness) is not changing?

If that's happening, it is a bug in thinkpad_acpi. Try playing with the
different brightness_mode settings, and please tell me which one worked
properly.

> Bug?  Misunderstanding?  What's going on here?

Bug.

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