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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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?

It is not impossible :-)  But i'd have to make it -rc2 I suppose.  I will do
so when I release a new thinkpad-acpi release, soon.

You can keep an eye on the "queue/waiting" branch of the thinkpad-acpi git
tree in the meantime.  I update it periodically when there is unmerged stuff
(like now), and it is usually based on the latest -rc.

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