Your message dated Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:41:39 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#448467: xserver-xorg-video-intel: Thinkpad brightness
keys don't work
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regarding xserver-xorg-video-intel: Thinkpad brightness keys don't work
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Package: xserver-xorg-video-intel
Version: 2:2.1.1-4
Severity: normal
The brightness control keys on my Thinkpad R60 stopped working in X
some time ago. I have probably upgraded both kernel and X.org since
then, and don't know exactly when it broke.
Pressing the keys in an X session now only causes a short flicker, but
does not affect the brightness. However the KDE on-screen display
seems to think everything is fine since I can control the level it
reports.
The brightness keys still work in a virtual console, just not in X.
"xbacklight -set" changes the brightness in a totally random way. For
example p=98 is barely visible, and most other settings give a
constant medium-bright level.
I can control the brightness at least reasonably well with
echo 50 > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video1/brightness
except that levels below 30 don't seem to have any effect.
Also I can do
echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
or
echo down > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
I have an unpatched kernel 2.6.23 (Linus' git tree) with thinkpad-acpi
0.16, hal 0.5.9.1-6, acpid 1.0.4-7.1.
The problem matches this description [1] which points to a fix in Ubuntu.
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hardware.thinkpad/32463
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-melech (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-intel depends on:
ii libc6 2.6.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdrm2 2.3.0-4 Userspace interface to kernel DRM
ii xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4-3 Xorg X server - core server
xserver-xorg-video-intel recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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Marcus Better wrote:
> The brightness keys now work correctly for me even when selecting
> "kernel" mode. I'm running kernel 2.6.27, xserver-xorg-video-intel
> 2:2.3.2-2+lenny5, xserver-xorg-core 2:1.4.2-7. Perhaps this bug can be
> closed.
>
Ok closing. Not clear which package fixed this, so I am giving any
version number.
Brice
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