[ltp] Re: X31: strange behavior of Fn+F7

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 12:19:18 -0200


On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:44:27 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > > I'm running 2.6.24-rc1 right now and have the following "problem":
> > > When neither thinkpad-acpi nor video is loaded, Fn+F7 works as
> > > expected, both in X and on the console.
> > > When I load tp-acpi or video (or both) this stops working, in X *and*
> > > on the VT. I can still echo video_switch into /proc/acpi/ibm/video,
> > > though, and it works then.
> > > It this behavior expected, or a bug?
> > 
> > It could be either.  Try loading just thinkpad-acpi, and just video.  Which
> > one causes the problem?
> 
> Both on their own :)
> 
> > If it is thinkpad-acpi, make sure bit 7 of hotkey_mask is zero (see
> > documentation).  Does that fix the problem?
> 
> Yeah that seems to help.
> Thanks.

Please send me the dmidecode and acpidump output for your X31 privately.
Remember to XXXXX-out the serial numbers and UUID in the dmidecode output.

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