Jim Paris wrote: > On my system, another hacky way to control the backlight (which seems > to be the same thing the intel X driver does) is: Wacky! :-D I've also figured out that the following works, and doesn't require root access: % xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT ### where "###" is an integer between 0 and 63063, inclusive. Presumably this is pretty much what xbacklight would do anyway? Still no idea how to get the brightness keys working to trigger this, though. :-( > I'm still working on trying to find a good solution to all this, I'll > let you know what I come up with. Thanks, Jim. I'm glad to have you picking up the baton. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. 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