On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 02:03:13PM -0600, joshua stein wrote: > Here we go again... > > On at least the ThinkPad X1C6, the screen brightness keys (F5 and > F6) do not work and "wsconsctl keyboard.backlight" doesn't report > the correct value when the keyboard backlight is adjusted with > Fn+Space. > > These are both caused by the default event mask not including these > events, so explicitly enable them. > > But then acpithinkpad has to actually do something for the screen > brightness keys, but it tries the very old CMOS method which doesn't > work on these newer machines[0]. So make it use the ACPI method. > > I renamed thinkpad_[gs]et_backlight to thinkpad_[gs]et_kbd_backlight > because it was confusing that they have nothing to do with screen > backlight. > > > 0. "newer machines" being those with MHKV reporting version 2. If > this diff breaks on older "newer machines", this metric will have to > be changed to something else.
The brightness keys on the X61s still work fine. -- Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado http://juanfra.info
