On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Jan Bramkamp <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 27/10/15 22:32, [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello freebsd-acpi@, >> >> I have lenovo ThinkPad Edge E145 laptop and the LCD brightness control >> stopped working somewhere between 10.2-RELEASE and 10.2-RELEASE-p6. >> >> I used to adjust the brightness using Fn-☼- and Fn-☼+ buttons and it >> always worked (during boot, in X, text console). Now, it works only >> in the loader, before the system boots. >> >> I tried alternative methods listed below, but non had any effect. >> >> Please help! ;) >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Stefan >> >> >> ** acpi_call >> >> acpi_call -v -p '\VBRU' >> >> Path: \VBRU >> Number of arguments: 0 >> ioctl: Device not configured >> >> no effect >> > > Is the acpi_call kernel module loaded? > > ** acpi_ibm >> >> sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.lcd_brightness=7 >> >> values change, but no effect >> >> >> ** acpi_video >> >> sysctl hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness=50 >> hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness: 50 -> # >> >> no effect >> >> >> pressing Fn+(sun)+- buttons has no effect, but logs: >> >> can't evaluate \134_SB_.PCI0.VGA_.LCD_._BQC - AE_NOT_FOUND >> > If the buttons generate events for devd you can execute whatever commands > work for you. `cat /var/run/devd.pipe` logs all events consumed by devd > from /dev/devctl. If the acpi_ibm module generates events for the function > keys the output of said command will log them. The key-value pairs contain > all the information needed to write matching event handlers in devd.conf. > > Did you try xbacklight? The changes between 10.2-RELEASE and > 10.2-RELEASE-p6 shouldn't break your backligh controls. However lots of > ports changed in that timeframe and maybe one of those changes e.g. a X.org > driver update caused your problem. > > And don't forget to ALWAYS rebuild ports that create kernel modules after every new kernel build. This is most easily done by defining PORTS_MODULES in /etc/src.conf. E.g. "PORTS_MODULES=sysutils/acpi_call". -- Kevin Oberman, Part time kid herder and retired Network Engineer E-mail: [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: D03FB98AFA78E3B78C1694B318AB39EF1B055683 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-acpi To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
