[ltp] Bug#448467: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Thinkpad brightness keys don't work

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On lun, 2007-10-29 at 12:28 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Marcus Better wrote:
> > The brightness control keys on my Thinkpad R60 stopped working in X
> > some time ago. I have probably upgraded both kernel and X.org since
> > then, and don't know exactly when it broke.
> 
> The *60 and *61 series of ThinkPads require proper brightness support using
> the ACPI specification.  Unfortunately, the kernel ACPI video driver is not
> quite there yet, and you need at the very least the 2.6.22 version of ACPI
> video to have any chance of it working most of the time.
> 
> They can also operate using thinkpad-acpi 0.18 (not merged into mainline
> yet), although that requires a module parameter, as thinkpad-acpi 0.18
> disables its brightness driver by default when it detects there is standard
> ACPI brightness control in the BIOS.
> 
> thinkpad-acpi patches are at http://ibm-acpi.sf.net.

Would it be possible to have a thinkpad-acpi 0.18 snapshot for
2.6.24-rc1 kernels?
-- 
Yves-Alexis Perez