[ltp] Brightness problem on x301 running Debian Lenny

[Per Dalgas Jakobsen]

On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 15:52 -0500, John Li wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 08:59:48PM +0100, Per Dalgas Jakobsen wrote:
> >
> > I have a strange problem on my x301 with the monitor brightness. It is  
> > like the actual brightness level lacks one behind all the time, let me  
> > explain:
> 
> This sounds just like the problem I described a few months ago. See:
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2008-October/045169.html
> 
> Henrique replied, saying that it would work with the very latest Xorg
> and kernel. I didn't bother with that, though, since it's not that big
> of an issue to me.

It does seem like what you describe in that thread, however, something
doesn't seem right: I'm using kernel 2.6.28 (as suggested in the
solution), and I'm having the problem when running in singleuser mode
too (X not loaded).
Maybe the suggested solution only works with X loaded?

~Per