[ltp] Re: X31: strange behavior of Fn+F7

Evgeni Golov linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:32:10 +0100


On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 22:44:27 -0200 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:

> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > I'm running 2.6.24-rc1 right now and have the following "problem":
> > When neither thinkpad-acpi nor video is loaded, Fn+F7 works as
> > expected, both in X and on the console.
> > When I load tp-acpi or video (or both) this stops working, in X *and*
> > on the VT. I can still echo video_switch into /proc/acpi/ibm/video,
> > though, and it works then.
> > It this behavior expected, or a bug?
> 
> It could be either.  Try loading just thinkpad-acpi, and just video.  Which
> one causes the problem?

Both on their own :)

> If it is thinkpad-acpi, make sure bit 7 of hotkey_mask is zero (see
> documentation).  Does that fix the problem?

Yeah that seems to help.
Thanks.