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gabrielg
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 Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:09 am Post subject: SOLVED Thinkpad X230 + kernel 3.7.9 = no brightness controls |
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Hi,
Just wanted to throw it out there I guess... since I upgraded from 3.6.11 to 3.7.9 (stable), my brightness keys stopped working. I can see the unhandled event in /var/log/messages, I can see acpid up and running, and I can adjust the brightness anyway through /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness.
I do have all the THINKPAD modules compiled in, which used to work with 3.6.11. I'll leave the troubleshooting for a rainy day I guess, since I can still control the brightness somehow, but I thought I'd mention it here as I haven't seen any reports yet, and I haven't got enough information to open a bug.
Gabriel
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Hypnos
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:32 am Post subject: |
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So what doesn't work? Changing brightness in your X11 desktop environment? If so, which one?
To check whether the kernel understands your brightness keys, emerge sys-apps/input-utils and see if you get the following when you run input-events:
| Code: | # input-events 5
/dev/input/event5
bustype : BUS_HOST
vendor : 0x17aa
product : 0x5054
version : 16641
name : "ThinkPad Extra Buttons"
phys : "thinkpad_acpi/input0"
bits ev : EV_SYN EV_KEY EV_MSC EV_SW
waiting for events
20:29:57.314773: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN 15
20:29:57.314778: EV_KEY KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP pressed
20:29:57.314781: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
20:29:57.314793: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN 15
20:29:57.314796: EV_KEY KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP released
20:29:57.314798: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
20:30:00.836848: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN 16
20:30:00.836854: EV_KEY KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN pressed
20:30:00.836857: EV_SYN code=0 value=0
20:30:00.836872: EV_MSC MSC_SCAN 16
20:30:00.836883: EV_KEY KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN released
20:30:00.836885: EV_SYN code=0 value=0 |
To check whether X11 is understanding your brightness keys, emerge x11-apps/xev and see if you get output like the following when you run it (various output snipped):
| Code: | KeyRelease event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 775827942, (133,46), root:(752,418),
state 0x0, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyPress event, serial 38, synthetic NO, window 0x3e00001,
root 0xaf, subw 0x0, time 775829166, (133,46), root:(752,418),
state 0x0, keycode 232 (keysym 0x1008ff03, XF86MonBrightnessDown), same_screen YES,
XLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes:
XFilterEvent returns: False
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On my Thinkpad X301, the BIOS handles brightness control, so I don't run acpid nor the xfce4-power-manager (in XFCE).
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gabrielg
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:50 am Post subject: |
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Thanks for the tips, Hypnos. I had tried this with xev and I can see that the keys are captured just fine, but nothing happens. I didn't know about input-events until I saw your reply, so tried it and it doesn't capture anything. Thanks again for this.
I always used acpid, but I know that the brightness shouldn't be managed by it on this laptop.
So, I now know that the issue is that the kernel doesn't understand these keys, which is what I was assuming. |
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gabrielg
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| Posted: Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:15 pm Post subject: [SOLVED] Thinkpad X230 + kernel 3.7.9 = no brightness keys |
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| Thanks, I guess I won't leave this for a rainy day then, and you saved me some work. Workaround did the trick. |
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