On Mon, 22 Apr 2013, Ben Jencks wrote: > On a Thinkpad T530, BIOS 2.07: > > Event 0x6050 is generated when there's a brightness change generated by > the firmware (not from the kernel through _BCM). This only happens when > the ACPI video driver is not loaded, or acpi_backlight=vendor. > (actually, when _BCL has not been called). > > It should probably be ignored, like TP_HKEY_EV_BRGHT_CHANGED (0x5010). > > Whether _BCL has been called is stored in variable \NBCF. > > ACPI dump is here: > http://www.bjencks.net/t530/acpidump.out.xz > > The full logic in the firmware appears to be: > > When a brightness key is pressed: > If the key is unmasked: > Report the key to thinkpad-acpi > If _BCL has been called: > Report the key (video event) to acpi video > Else: > Adjust the brightness > Report event 0x6050 to thinkpad-acpi > > This results in correct behavior when acpi video is loaded, since > thinkpad-acpi automatically masks the brightness keys in that case. > However, without acpi video the keys are unmasked, so keypresses > generate two brightness changes -- one from the firmware and one from > userspace. > > It seems like the brightness keys should always be masked on this type > of firmware. Thanks for the detailed report! -- "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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
