forcemerge 443111 448467 thank you
Marcus Better wrote: > The brightness control keys on my Thinkpad R60 stopped working in X > some time ago. I have probably upgraded both kernel and X.org since > then, and don't know exactly when it broke. > > Pressing the keys in an X session now only causes a short flicker, but > does not affect the brightness. However the KDE on-screen display > seems to think everything is fine since I can control the level it > reports. > It might not be a good idea to use these keys since they modify the hardware state in the back of the X driver. Using xbacklight is probably a better idea in the end. But xbacklight has some other bugs on some Intel boards unfortunately (see below). > "xbacklight -set" changes the brightness in a totally random way. For > example p=98 is barely visible, and most other settings give a > constant medium-bright level. > We have a couple bugs about this. For instance #438969 and #439744. You should try the latest upstream git of the Intel driver without and with the patch from https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11527 and let us know whether it helps. Brice -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
