Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbacklight doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbacklight doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP Grant,   Sorry I missed this thread earlier. I've got an Asus 17 laptop that I've been trying unsuccessfully to get the keyboard backlighting to work correctly for weeks (maybe months - I no longer remember how long) On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP   acpi_listen on n-ArrowUp/Dn does produce a response so maybe I don't have something properly mapped? SNIP It seems that on this Asus laptop the Fn-Arrow keys are mapped to audio events of some type. (Reading xev

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
[snip] Hey Mark, I'm happy to say I just fixed the screen backlighting on my system, but I'm sorry to say I don't think it will help you with keyboard backlighting.  To fix it, I removed 'acpi_backlight=vendor' from grub and added 'echo 0 /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness' to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700, Grant wrote:   I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are fairly different. My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with nothing so I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
  I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are fairly different. My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with nothing so I don't think they're being installed anymore. They

[gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-04 Thread walt
On 03/04/2012 01:16 PM, Grant wrote: On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'. Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash. The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-04 Thread Grant
On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbacklight doesn't