From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S8dRS-0000Ju-Al for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:08:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4801E0E3A; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:07:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A2B5E0BF5 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 20:06:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so2504059eek.40 for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4yoGOIMvhVZ4uwfm5xMOc0lgvKOiJW2poGw5d8+VPQ8=; b=Gg47RxKzQQ1xi2ZvdwwfpyTWPrmLoxfQ9w4wYM1cCnPfT2dc7Cy5oIyGrWnD+JNFnm nKo7avXGy7cEugqsa1jSBOCpxrFazce0msXqDWMYJiKsakJQDZtNBByeDsCdUGwFBgGI d3PdhCv2ycHzNLOvgA2reHJZ1EAT2p9tdCfQY06JRK6UrZWnsXLEHQW+QjQp1smXPP8O TCdOQQmaybJdaSoONfPRhecpb/stAL2M4W2JDVRJ+phxA+903TQkGFAwjFcS575bQwNY 5le8OFbnnitVA3wz0cES/31rO0sXsqQlIsFfQkwV6mTvwQPH4ZgYB6AFODdEqfdFsn4r 5fAQ== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.136.10 with SMTP id v10mr483531eei.76.1331928377425; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.213.8.78 with HTTP; Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: f4acbd49-9473-4ff1-82d0-d68852567e1b X-Archives-Hash: 91c2758931bfc63ed982322d2898b6ba [snip] >> Hey Mark, I'm happy to say I just fixed the screen backlighting on my >> system, but I'm sorry to say I don't think it will help you with >> keyboard backlighting. =A0To fix it, I removed 'acpi_backlight=3Dvendor' >> from grub and added 'echo 0 > >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness' to >> /etc/local.d/backlight.start and made that file executable. =A0Now >> backlight control works perfectly via the keyboard shortcuts with no >> other configuration and no xbacklight. =A0I'm on >> hardened-sources-3.2.2-r1. >> >> BTW, I noticed baselayout1.start and baselayout1.stop are no longer >> created in /etc/local.d. >> >> - Grant >> > > Hi Grant, > =A0 OK, that's interesting info. Here's what I'm currently seeing: > > slinky ~ # uname -a > Linux slinky 3.2.10 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Mar 13 09:45:35 PDT 2012 x86_64 > Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU Q 740 @ 1.73GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > slinky ~ # ls -al /etc/local.d/ > total 20 > drwxr-xr-x =A02 root root 4096 Feb 23 21:03 . > drwxr-xr-x 72 root root 4096 Mar 16 11:53 .. > -rw-r--r-- =A01 root root =A0387 Feb 23 21:03 README > -rwxr-xr-x =A01 root root =A0123 May =A03 =A02011 baselayout1.start > -rwxr-xr-x =A01 root root =A0217 May =A03 =A02011 baselayout1.stop > slinky ~ # ls -la /sys/class/backlight/asus_laptop/ > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root =A0 =A00 Mar 16 04:35 . > drwxr-xr-x 3 root root =A0 =A00 Mar 16 04:35 .. > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 12:09 actual_brightness > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 12:09 bl_power > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 11:40 brightness > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root =A0 =A00 Mar 16 12:09 device -> > ../../../asus_laptop > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 11:40 max_brightness > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root =A0 =A00 Mar 16 04:35 subsystem -> > ../../../../../class/backlight > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 12:09 type > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Mar 16 04:35 uevent > slinky ~ # cat /sys/class/backlight/asus_laptop/brightness > 15 > slinky ~ # > > =A0 So, it seems to me that following your example, if I wanted to > experiment with screen backlighting what would I do? I'm in KDE BTW in > case we're doing something different in that regard. > > =A0 I see in the Global Keyboard Shortcuts in KDE that there are > Monitor Brightness Down/Up controls defined but I'm not understanding > what keys actually control those. I =A0Googled around for a minute and > found Fn-ArrowUp/ArrowDn but they didn't work o I'm hoping you can > tell me and save me a few minutes. Maybe it's because I haven't > started something required? > > =A0 acpi_listen on n-ArrowUp/Dn does produce a response so maybe I > don't have something properly mapped? Have you tried adding 'acpi_osi=3DLinux acpi_backlight=3Dvendor' to grub? Is asus_laptop all you have in /sys/class/backlight? > =A0 I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are > fairly different. My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with nothing so I don't think they're being installed anymore. - Grant