[arch-general] thinkpad t61 and not able to adjust brightness

[Damjan Georgievski]

> I've similar problem here with my X60s.
>
> echo 'up' >! /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
>
> works fine but using the hotkeys has no effect. I now realized that xev
> doesn't return a keycode for FN+HOME and FN+END at all. FN only gives a
> keycode as well as HOME and END on its own do.
>
> However, i'm using Vanilla, so don't expect this to be an arch related
> problem. AFAIK things concerning brightness adjustment changed for
> 2.6.29 in the acpi/video branch.

Do you have some special settings enabled?? Because you shouldn't.

on my X60s everything works fine in console and X (with any
sufficiently recent intel driver - maybe 2.3 was too old - I don't
remember)



-- 
damjan