Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > But you don't have to wait for fixes anywhere to use your backlight. Here's > what you can do: > > 1. load latest thinkpad-acpi in whichever way you want (with or without > backlight interface). It will work well enough, AFAIK. > > 2. load and then *UNLOAD* the ACPI video module. This will place the > thinkpad in ACPI backlight mode. I hooked into rc.sysinit to do this fairly early during boot. thinkpad_acpi has already been loaded but no userspace daemons have been started yet. I verify that thinkpad_acpi is loaded, then load video, then unload video. I have a 5-second delay after each of these three steps so I can visually inspect the script's output and confirm that the modules are loading and unloading as expected. I now have no detectable sign of the brightness keys being pressed at all. If haldaemon is running, "lshal --monitor" reports nothing when I press these keys. If acpid is running, "acpi_listen" reports nothing when I press these keys. The contents of /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness, /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness, and /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/actual_brightness to not change when I press these keys. Nothing. I appreciate all the help you've been giving me, Henrique. But this workaround recipe is definitely not doing what you expected it to do. :-( Any other ideas? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
