[ltp] Re: X61 Brightness Question

[Hendrik-Jan Heins]

Ondrej,

I'm actually seeing the same thing as you are: On switching console
and waking from suspend, I get full brightnesss. When I then touch the
brightness keys, it gets back to the level I put in there before (even
though that's usually more than one button stroke away).

The difference: I upgraded to be full Sid again 2 days ago. So I
upgraded hal and dbus (and others).

Hendrik-Jan


2007/8/20, Ondrej Balaz <ondra@blami.net>:
> On 2007-08-20, Hendrik-Jan Heins <hjheins@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Ondrej,
> >
> > As far as I know, acpid also works on the console (so not only in X).
> > My guess is that in X you also have some other button event catcher
> > running? Maybe tpb or kmilo?
>
> No. I'm using X11 only with evilwm window manager. `ps' doesn't report
> tpb,kmilo or similar services running. In addition I never have installed
> these - acpid is able to catch every event I need. My system is also
> hald-less. I like my system highly configurable without these
> desktop-user-friendly-ai tools.
>
> Yesterday I found that something is wrong between acpi `video' module and
> acpid.
>
> Buttons works better when I remove "video" acpi module. But everytime when
> mplayer starts or I switch to console (or wake-up display from dpms off
> state), display brightness grows to level 7 and /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
> reports original value (physical and reported values are desynced).
> This is not critical - I can regulate brightness using buttons, but it's
> annoying.
>
> Ondrej.
> PS: Sorry, my english is worse.
>
> > Having both acpid and tpb or kmilo run together might be what causes
> > these problems for you.
> >
> >
> > Hendrik-Jan
> >
> > 2007/8/19, Ondrej Balaz <ondra@blami.net>:
> >> On 2007-08-16, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> >> >> I went to init 1, unloaded acpid and hald.
> >> >> And was only left with thinkpad-acpi.
> >> >> None of the buttons worked.
> >> >
> >> > At that point, try loading the ACPI video module.  The buttons should start
> >> > working.
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> I have similar problem with my X60s. I can regulate brightness only in console.
> >> In X11 when I'm pushing Fn+Home/End screen only "blinks" with same brightness
> >> level. When I do `echo "level N" > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightnes` level will change -
> >> but I need to regulate it familiary - using buttons.
> >>
> >> I've watched & followed this thread. Here I killed acpid and buttons started
> >> working also under X11. Where is problem - I need run acpid to handle other
> >> events. So how I can run working brightness control and acpid together ?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any advice.
> >> Best regards,
> >> blami.
> >>
> >> >
> >> >> buttons worked again, so indeed it seems that acpid is running the
> >> >> show here :-/
> >> >
> >> > It's more likely to be something tied to hald than acpid.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> >   "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
> >>
> >>
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