http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12233
------- Comment #14 from shell...@gmail.com 2008-12-18 21:22 ------- (In reply to comment #13) > 1. Good point - we need to see what effect a BIOS upgrade has. > 2. That's a very good question. From what little information I've seen on the > subject it seems that whether the hotkeys are captured by Linux or not (via > the > fujitsu driver or elsewhere) depends on the laptop. On my S7020 the > brightness > hotkeys don't appear visible to software at all (and in fact work perfectly > fine without any ACIP video/fijitsu-driver modules loaded). Other models > however seem to see the brightness hotkeys in software with the existing code > ACPI video/Fujitsu code. So it's a little unclear as to what exactly is > needed > in the general case. > I'll have to look into the notifier functionality in more detail, but on the > face of it what you've suggested sounds reasonable if it turns out to be > necessary for particular models. Thank you very much, I'm qutie sure that my laptop controls the backlight throught ACPI, because when the fujitsu-laptop module was not installed, the hotkeys does not work at all. When the fujitsu-laptop module was installed and I pressed the hotkeys, the gonme-brightness-applet can catch the event and show an icon in the middle of the screen, so I think the software can feel the hotkey events. I think that nowthat the hotkeys work very well on Windows XP, it can also work well on Linux, so I think the BIOS is not the problem, but I'll still try to upgrade it(if I can find a newer version). My laptop is an old type which was published at 2006, so I think it will not work for me to upgrade to 2.6.28 kernel, but I will do that tonight :) By the way, I can change the backlight in this way:"echo n > /sys/devices/platform/fujitsu-laptop/lcd_level"(n differents from 1 to 7) and it works perfectly, so I still think the problem is caused by software. Thanks a lot to all of you! -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ acpi-bugzilla mailing list acpi-bugzilla@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/acpi-bugzilla
