[ltp] Re: X61 Brightness Question

[Ondrej Balaz]

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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