Re: Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5

From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge
Date: Wed Oct 01 2008 - 14:28:51 EST


Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:59:06PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

On my shiny new X200 running Fedora Rawhide, I'm finding that the brightness control keys work OK, but the backlight remains stuck off after a resume. The machine is working fine but the backlight is just off; I can see the display under a bright light. Switching consoles and poking about in /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video?/ didn't help.

Intel graphics, right?

Yes. The new, erm , X4500?

The DRM layer should handle full resume on modern Intel hardware, but there's the potential for bugs. This is entirely unrelated to ACPI, though.

OK, that's a good clue. I poke at acpi to change the brightness, so I'd assumed that acpi would also handle turning the backlight on/off.

I'm using the rawhide rather than standard kernel, but I'd thought they were fairly similar.

I'm also using the vesa X server; I haven't tried using the intel one yet.

J
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