[ltp] T61 brightness control - partial solution

[Jimmy Wu]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac@debian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:47:03PM +0000, Jimmy Wu wrote:
>  > I have a T61 running Debian Sid. The Fn+Home and Fn+End work in that
>  > they change the screen brightness, though nothing pops up to indicate
>  > the current level. I counted 16 levels of brightness on the way down
>  > from max to lowest. The buttons worked out of the box on a Debian
>  > install.  I have the thinkpad_acpi module loaded, but from what I read
>  > in the documentation, the brightness keys are handled by the firmware
>  > rather than the module itself.
>
>  You mean that brightness works out of the box on an fresh sid install using
>  pure Xfce4? What is your graphic card (intel or nvidia)?
>
>  Cheers,
>  --
>  Yves-Alexis

nvidia
specifically the quadro nvs 140M, but I think that's the only kind of
nvidia card they use in T61's
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Jimmy Wu
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