On Thu, 03 Jan 2008, Ben Liblit wrote: > 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? Yes, load thinkpad-acpi with that "brightness mode" report patch (the fixed version) *after* loading and unloading video. It should say that the variable now contains "1". Does it? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
