Bug#448467: [ltp] Re: Bug#448467: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Thinkpad brightness keys don't work

[Brice Goglin]

On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:42:09PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > That's good, but there has to be a list somewhere since the kernel 
> > backlight interface was so poorly designed.  I don't care if it's in 
> > the driver with an override list in xorg.conf or what, but it has to be 
> > somewhere.
> 
> As long as one can override it with a *list* (which must include the empty
> list to disable the feature) in xorg.conf, there is not a problem to have a
> hardcoded default.

Thanks a lot for discussing this, guys.

Unfortunately, since Marcus still had problems with 2.6.24-rc4 and a
recent snapshot of thinkpad-acpi, what do we have to wait for before
this could work?

Is anybody actually implementing something to handle the above list
of backlight devices?

thanks,
Brice