Dnia 2010-04-27, wto o godzinie 10:37 -0700, Grant pisze: > >> >> >> Strangely, now my laptop's brightness adjustment doesn't work via the > >> >> >> keyboard shortcuts. Any ideas on that? > >> >> >> > >> >> >> - Grant > >> >> >> > >> >> > Please share the beast model :P (or maybe ive missed it). > >> >> > in kernel config You have multiple option for backlight eg. for > >> >> > thinkpad > >> >> > there is extra one in "thinkpad specific acpi" maybe You have > >> >> > something > >> >> > similar for Yours stuff. > >> >> > >> >> It's a Dell Vostro 1320. The keyboard shortcuts to change brightness > >> >> were working great until I enabled DRM in the kernel. Can you tell me > >> >> where in the kernel those options can be found, or part of the > >> >> variable name that defines them? > >> >> > >> > Try running xev and punching brightness keys, if you would see > >> > "effects" (some text in terminal) then its OK :P You should change the > >> > Acpi configs (etc/acpi/) or Gnome/KDE/Xfce/... bindings. > >> > >> I do see text in xev when pressing the brightness keys. > >> > >> > (if You dont know it already) > >> > For acpi config You'll need "event id" try running acpi_listen. > >> > eg. /etc/acpi/events/sleep: > >> > event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001004 > >> > action=/etc/acpi/actions/sleep.sh > >> > > >> > and into actions you put scripts, try using xbacklight. > >> > >> You think I should use xbacklight or similar even though it was > >> working on its own before? > >> > >> - Grant > >> > >> > >> > If You wouldn't have any reaction in xev and acpi_listen i check the > >> > option in kernel. > >> > > I think that its better to have things done even if would be around then > > dont done it at all. :) > > Yes but I think I should find the built-in mechanism which was > allowing it to work before instead of writing my own script to make it > work. Don't you think so? > > - Grant > Try built in Gnome\Kde\Xfce(etc) bindings i had some troubles (in xfce) - keys with names XF86* starts to randomly changes names or disappear from configs ... maybe its Your case too. -- Bartosz Szatkowski KeyFP: 1568 D5A7 B14C 0727 1C61 ACFB ABDE C08A DDB7 1F70
The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3)
