From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chuck Ebbert 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 Message-ID: <4714CB1A.7010300@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:35058 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758354AbXJPOax (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:30:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Danny Baumann Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.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/