[ltp] Brightness up/down with video module

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 03 May 2008 20:41:39 +0200


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On jeu, 2008-05-01 at 15:02 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On jeu, 2008-05-01 at 15:52 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> > Now this all works, I don't know.  I have the ACPI video module
> > loaded,
> > HAL is running, X is running, and I get nice GNOME popups showing
> the
> > video level.  xev shows key press events (keycodes 212 and 101), but
> > no
> > X symbol is assigned to them.
>=20
> I guess ubuntu guys patched their hal/gnome-power-manager to manage
> this. It'd have been nice to know how, but hey.

I've found a parameter to the video module, which is
brightness_switch_enabled on vanilla kernel (and automatic_change on
ubuntu kernels).

If I set it to =E2=80=9Cno=E2=80=9D (echo N
> /sys/modules/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled),
gnome-power-manager is able to use brightness keys.

Could you tell me what you have
in /sys/modules/video/parameters/automatic_change?

Cheers,
--=20
Yves-Alexis

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