[ltp] ACPI video module on Thinkpad R61 8918

[Christian Birchinger]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 06:06:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Christian Birchinger wrote:
> > "current" does not get updated when the Fn+Home/End hotkeys or
> > the special /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness from the thinkpad-acpi
> > module gets used to adjust brightness. On boot it shows "0"
> > but the display is not dark.
> 
> This is a bug somewhere, but it *could* be in the thinkpad firmware. Make
> sure you are using the latest one.

BIOS is 1.21-1.06 and 1.22-1.06 is available. But i think the
1.06 part (Embedded Controller version) is the relevant part and
that isn't newer.

Well i'm installing the 1.22 version now for the hell of it.
I'll add a comment if it really changes the situation.