>> >> >> >> 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
Got it, thank you for your help with this. I used xbacklight along with the xfce4 keyboard shortcut GUI settings. My backlight adjustment keystrokes are displayed as XF86MonBrightnessUp and *Down in those settings, so there must have been a mechanism adjusting the backlight based on that before I updated Xorg. Here are my xbacklight commands: xbacklight -inc 15 -steps 1 -time 0 xbacklight -dec 10 -steps 1 -time 0 Thanks again, Grant
