On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:00:23AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > OK, that's weird. I have a suspicion that we're about to find out that > this is intentional, but I don't know what the fix is.. My recollection is that some BIOSes provide the list of brightness values in reverse order - someone posted a patch to sort them in-kernel, but I can't remember what happened to it. xbacklight will work because it triggers a direct write to the hardware if the acpi driver isn't loaded. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html