[ltp] T61 brightness/volume

Yves-Alexis Perez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:13:33 +0100


On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:57:00PM +0000, Sin Tzu wrote:
> Yeah i'm running linux mint (variant of ubuntu 7.10, though no kernel
> changes) and brightness works out of the box, 

I'd be happy to know how. (maybe and old kernel and old thinkpad-acpi wich
forces old way to do things, I don't know). Wich thinkpad-acpi and kernel do
you have?
> 
> Unfortunately i don't know C so i can't really help on that, but i did
> notice Henrique stating a few times that if you can use that module to
> control brightness, to go for it.

With or without video.c, it doesn't work. (well brightness do works via
xbacklight, but you have to manually bind keys when needed, fn+home/end don't
work out of the box).
-- 
Yves-Alexis