Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working

Norbert Preining
2010-11-12T04:39:30Z

On Fr, 12 Nov 2010, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> backlight (actually Fn+F[56]) is one of those keys the needs remapping
> these days, i.e. if xev doesn't get any event in X then you may need

It doesn't.

> $ diff -u <(sudo input-kbd 5) vaio-kbd
> /dev/input/event5
> bustype : BUS_ISA
> vendor : 0x104d
> product : 0x0
> version : 0
> name : "Sony Vaio Keys"
> bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC

Ahhhhh
root$ input-kbd 8
/dev/input/event8
protocol version mismatch (expected 65536, got 65537)
and the same for all event devices??

I have input-kbd from xserver-xorg-input-kbd in Debian/sid, which is
at 1:1.4.0-2 version.

Does that mean that 2.6.37rc is too new for the user space?

Best wishes

Norbert
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