On Sat, 30 Jun 2012, Andrew Immerman wrote: > I have a Lenovo ThinkPad W520 4276-39U and am unable to control LCD brightness. Thinkpad-acpi doesn't support brightness control of any laptops that do it through the GPU. That's the job of the framebuffer console or the X driver... > to be, a fully patched thinkpad_acpi.ko. Not sure if it's relevant, > though, it's running on an NVIDIA Quadro 1000M GF108GL set to > discrete mode (I think), with X.Org X Server 1.11.3 and the NVIDIA version > 295.40 driver. So, it will be the job of the nVidia driver, and it will be only available through X.org + nVidia driver. > * unknown possible thermal alarm or keyboard event received > unhandled HKEY event 0x6050 That's just the thinkpad trying to tell an (inexistent) userspace driver that it should do on-screen-display of the brightness. It probably also generates key events for brightness up/down directly on the keyboard controller. Test it using "xev". -- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
