http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14548





--- Comment #7 from Ian Smith <[email protected]>  2009-11-09 18:24:26 ---
With "acpi_backlight=vendor" there are some changes, although neither keyboard,
nor brightness slider in kde control panel, nor writing to brightness from the
terminal has any effect.

The change is that the symlink to acpi_video0 is replaced with acer-wmi (the
actual location is ../../devices/platform/acer-wmi/backlight/acer-wmi).

The contents of this directory are also different. There are 5 files:
- actual_brightness
- bi_power
- brightness
- max-brightness
- uevent

Also 3 sub-directories:
- device (actually a symlink to ../../acer-wmi)
- power
- subsystem (symlink to ../../../../../class/backlight)

It occurred to me that writing to "actual_brightness" might work, but I got a
"Permission denied" error, and, checking the properties, found that file is
read-only, even for root.

Do you need either an acpidump or lspci while the machine is in this state?

BTW, one thing possibly worth mentioning is that I can get the keyboard to
control brightness by booting with "acpi=off". Of course that's not a very
acceptable work-around because I lose battery monitoring.

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