Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:00:56 +0800 From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko" <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ThinkPad x60 and FN keys Message-ID: <6eb82e0703170100v572a0794q334dc34bec992685@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1174078831.829.11.camel@RabbitsDen> References: <6eb82e0703161009w15787d99p51510299fa0e1e45@mail.gmail.com> <1174078831.829.11.camel@RabbitsDen>
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On 3/17/07, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 01:09 +0800, Rong-en Fan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone run -current on ThinkPad X60? If so, does fn+home / fn+end, > > i.e. adjusting lcd brightness work? These two keys and other fn+X (like fn+f7) > > work only before kernel is loaded, but not after. > This used to work for me some time ago (I would say January) along with > the bluetooth radio control button (Fn-F5) and the ThinkLight (Fn-PgUp). > I started using acpi_ibm.ko, which exposes all of this functionality > through sysctl and lost button control for everything but ThinkLight. At > that time sysctl were more important for me then buttons, so I did not > worry about it too much. With -CURRENT from March 8, I could not get > brightness control back even if I do not load acpi_ibm.ko With or without acpi_ibm and acpi_video, only ThinkLight is working. The LCD brightness can only be adjusted by hw.acpi.video sysctls. And the bluetooth indicator exposed by acpi_ibm often flip flop... > > I'm running amd64 -current as of today. > Since, unlike yours, my X60 is the 32-bit machine, I am tracking > i386-CURRENT. Taking that into account, I do not know how useful stuff > above really is. I don't know neither... Reading linux's ibm-acpi mailing, it seems that Lenovo's newer bios (2.x) changed its behavior... > > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko. > > >
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