Re: Brightness buttons broken on Toshiba Satellite Proc A100 in kernel 2.6.23 (Fedora8)

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Hi,

> > Ok, I played around with it some more. It seems that on my Laptop the
> > firmware sends out notifications on Fn+F6/7 press.
> > Kernel 2.6.23-rc2 worked fine, -rc3 is broken. Reverting ec.c in the
> > current Fedora kernel to the version in 2.6.23-rc2 makes brightness
> > control work again. After finding that, I tried the current HEAD version
> > of ec.c - unfortunately to no avail.
> > 2.6.23-rc3 doesn't show up the (unwanted) key events for Fn+F6/7 though
> > - this behaviour was introduced in -rc4.
> > 
> > Is it possible to fix the problem with the amount of information
> > provided? If no, what additional information can I provide?
> Please check if attached patch changes situation.

Yes, it does. With that patch, everything works as intended.
Gnome-power-manager doesn't seem to work properly with it, but that's a
different story ;-)

> Also, please open a new bug entry in bugzilla.kernel.org and put all the data you've collected there.
> Please also attach full output from acpidump.

Done: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9262 .
Sorry I didn't open it in the first place, but I wasn't sure if it was a
distro kernel problem, a hardware problem or a vanilla kernel problem.

Thanks,

Danny

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