Re: Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01T18:28:48Z

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