So what is the option for users without gnome-power-manager or its KDE counterpart? Brightness seems to work fine on my T61 with the regular hardy desktop.
On a T60 with slim+openbox, I have to resort to either PJ's tip about /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos or use echo nn > /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness. Or I can load the thinkpad_acpi module with brightness_enable=1 and echo values to /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness. I have a custom init script that sets the IBM hotkey mask so that acpi registers the IBM hotkeys when the brightness buttons are pressed. hotkey-setup does not appear to do that for me. This is a problem in general for all the Fn+... keys. The volume keys work fine, however other than the Thinklight nothing seems to work out of the box for me. My setup: hardy command line install with X, openbox and slim. I am not sure if this is a bug or a lack of configuration on my part, but fixes would be great. Thanks -- Why isn't thinkpad-brightness-down.sh used for Lenovo thinkpads? https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/161745 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
