[ltp] T61 brightness/volume

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:00:26 +0100


On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 10:45:48PM +0000, Alan Wood wrote:
> First Brightness:
> out of the box, brightness controls (fn-home, fn-end) work fine in the 
> Grub menu.  Once the kernel is booted the story is different.
> I've tried the stock thinkpad_acpi that came with F8 (0.16) and I 
> compiled thinkpad_acpi 0.18-20071203 for comparison.  both gave me the 
> same results.

Even with 2.6.24 + thinkpad-acpi 0.19-20080107 fn-brightness keys don't work
out of the box. xbacklight works correctly when in X so I've bound those keys
in my wm (using xmodmap before) but I still don't have a clean way to have
those keys working at all time.

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis