[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.17-20071002 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 03 Oct 2007, Jan Gutter wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 00:02 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > This release needs testing, and it needs testing FAST.  It has two important
> > features that could make it for 2.6.24, if I get reports of how well they
> > work in less than a week.
> > 
> > * Support for 16-level brightness for Lenovo thinkpads
> >   (X61, T61 *needs* this.  X60 likely does so, as well.  T60 appears not to,
> >    but I welcome tests, it should auto-detect).
> 
> I have a Thinkpad X61 Tablet model, I get the following results:
> 
> /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness lists 7 levels, if I set from 0 to 7, it goes
> from dark to about half-bright. Luckily the Fn-keys set the brightness
> to full (no matter if you go up or down ;-)
> 
> If I'm not mistaken it should be 15, right?

Yes.  Please send me the output of dmidecode (edit out the UUID and serial
numbers) and of acpidump.  I need what is in the SSDTs and DSDT.

Maybe the method I used to detect 16 levels is not good for all thinkpads...
I will know once I get your acpidump.

> I'm running 2.6.23-rc9, and I've skipped testing 0.16 release. Should I
> check it out too?

Nah, it won't make a difference.

-- 
  "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