[ltp] T61/intel: LCD brightness

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> Could it be that my laptop has 15 levels instead of 7, and I need a
> thinkpad-acpi upgrade?  (I currently have thinkpad-acpi version 0.14,
> according to modinfo.)

Yes.  Since you are using Ubuntu, you must use thinkpad-acpi 0.18. 0.14
cannot handle 16 levels, because Ubuntu insists on messing with the display
brightness through thinkpad-acpi.

You need a very recent kernel (2.6.22 recommended as 2.6.23.1 is broken),
and thinkpad-acpi 0.18.

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  Henrique Holschuh