Hi Mattia, hi Dmitry, On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote: > backlight (actually Fn+F[56]) is one of those keys the needs remapping > these days, i.e. if xev doesn't get any event in X then you may need > something like: Ok, I have now done the fllowing: - recompiled a input-kbd binary with a relaxed version check - if (EV_VERSION != version) { + if (EV_VERSION > version) { in input.c, line 104 of input-utils. - created a vaio-kbd from the output of input-kbd and changed the keys that hat keycode 470 and 471 (those shown in evtest 8) to key_brightness: $ diff -u <(./input-kbd 8) vaio-kbd --- /dev/fd/63 2010-11-17 15:24:32.023696588 +0900 +++ vaio-kbd 2010-11-17 15:24:02.000000000 +0900 @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ 0x0006 = 467 # KEY_FN_F2 0x0007 = 468 # KEY_FN_F3 0x0008 = 469 # KEY_FN_F4 -0x0009 = 470 # KEY_FN_F5 -0x000a = 471 # KEY_FN_F6 +0x0009 = 224 # KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN +0x000a = 225 # KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP 0x000b = 472 # KEY_FN_F7 0x000c = 473 # KEY_FN_F8 0x000d = 474 # KEY_FN_F9 $ remember: evtest /dev/input/event8 reports code 470 and code 471 for the respective Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 combinations. > output to a file, edit it to change the keys you need remapped and run > `input-kbd -f <file> <devNo>`. Then I run $ ./input-kbd -f vaio-kbd 8 /dev/input/event8 map: 44 keys, size: 59/64 parse error: /dev/input/event8 $ with the effect that still brigthness is not working. If someone can explain what is wrong here and how to get this fixed that would be nice, because up to now on the sony-vaio mailing list I heard many complains about disappearing brightness, I hope we can fix that. Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org} JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SNITTERBY (n.) Someone who pins snitters (q.v.) on to snitterfields (q.v.) and is also suspected of being responsible for the extinction of virginstows (q.v.) --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- 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