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From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Danny Baumann <dannybaumann@web.de>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Brightness buttons broken on Toshiba Satellite Proc A100 in kernel 2.6.23 (Fedora8)
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:30:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4714CB1A.7010300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20071016T122903-517@post.gmane.org>

On 10/16/2007 08:49 AM, Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after upgrading to Fedora 8 which brought kernel 2.6.23 with it I can no longer
> use the brightness buttons (Fn+F6/F7) on my above mentioned laptop. Pressing
> them generates F6 and F7 key events instead of ACPI events. This used to work
> fine in Fedora 7's 2.6.22.9 kernel.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to debug this? Writing a value to
> /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness still works fine, so it's just a matter of
> the key mapping.
> I would try to debug this myself, if I just knew where to look at; so any
> pointers in this direction would be appreciated, too.
> 

Did you look here? I think all you need is keyboard quirks for those keys...

http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/


  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 14:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 12:49 Brightness buttons broken on Toshiba Satellite Proc A100 in kernel 2.6.23 (Fedora8) Danny Baumann
2007-10-16 14:30 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-10-16 14:50   ` Danny Baumann
2007-10-30 12:21   ` Danny Baumann
2007-10-30 13:55     ` Alexey Starikovskiy
2007-10-30 17:21       ` Danny Baumann
2007-11-02 13:40         ` Danny Baumann

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