[ltp] T61 brightness control - partial solution

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:47:03PM +0000, Jimmy Wu wrote:
> I have a T61 running Debian Sid. The Fn+Home and Fn+End work in that
> they change the screen brightness, though nothing pops up to indicate
> the current level. I counted 16 levels of brightness on the way down
> from max to lowest. The buttons worked out of the box on a Debian
> install.  I have the thinkpad_acpi module loaded, but from what I read
> in the documentation, the brightness keys are handled by the firmware
> rather than the module itself.

You mean that brightness works out of the box on an fresh sid install using
pure Xfce4? What is your graphic card (intel or nvidia)?

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis