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[SOLVED] Li1705 Kubuntu 7.10: de-/increase brightness ...  Topic is solved

Postby bobribbon » Tue Jan 08, 2008 9:28 am

XOrg doesn't seem to recongnize the LCD brightness hotkeys (Fn+ F7 and Fn+ F8).

Any tips on how to solve this?

EDIT:
xev doesn't recognize the key!
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Postby mikerobertson_uk » Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:57 pm

hi did you get to run ok? i tried this afternoon and all goes fine then the screen goes!!
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Postby bobribbon » Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:42 pm

By "then the screen goes" you mean it turns black?
If so, try different video drivers (vesa, or after you installed openchrome, openchrome) with XOrg.
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Postby mikerobertson_uk » Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:59 pm

sorry to sound thick but how do i put the other drivers on it i can only see a blank screen
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Postby bobribbon » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:26 am

You don't need to apologize! :-)
I assume you have a live internet connection.

For some reason phpBB won't let me use slashes so I wrote backslashes. When you type use slashes instead! :?:

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sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-video openchrome
vi \etc\X11\xorg.conf


find where it says
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Section "Device"

change
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Driver "vesa"

to
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Driver "openchrome"


save the file (hit ':' 'w' 'enter') and quit (hit ':' 'q' 'enter') and give it a try...

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Postby mikerobertson_uk » Fri Jan 11, 2008 10:22 pm

hi i cant see where i have to put these command line into.heres what i do i put in the live cd to install it to see if it works i as i dont want to ditch vista and be left with nothing until i know i can get it up and running so can you give me a complete idiots guide starting from putting in the live cd please.

many thank in advance
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Postby bobribbon » Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:59 am

I'm not sure if these settings will work on a LiveCD, sorry...
You can however try - open a console and give it a go!
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Postby bobribbon » Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:24 am

I finally solved it.
It turned out that the keys actually *did* respond but the command (\etc\acpi\video_brightnessup.sh) didn't do anything!
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Postby Stevie » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:34 pm

how did u find out that they work?
cos i have the same problem...but im using a xa1526.
the keys dont show any code in xev, so i cant be sure if they work.
could you tell me how u did find out that the keys work?

best,

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Postby bobribbon » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:41 pm

Hi Stevie, in my case...

\proc\acpi\video\VGA\LCD contains a file called 'brightness'
If I echo values to that file as root the LCD responds (i.e. echo -n "1" > brightness)

\var\log\acpid showed that each time I pressed the brightness keys, there actually was a response and Ubuntu did execute \etc\acpi\video_brightnessup.sh or ...\video_brightnessdown.sh

All I had to do was change these files to actually write values to \proc\acpi\video\VGA\LCD\brightness et voila...

for instance my \etc\acpi\video_brightnessup.sh:
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#!/bin/bash

CURRENT=$(grep "current:" /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness |awk '{print $2}')

case "$CURRENT" in

7)
echo -n 7 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
6)
echo -n 7 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
5)
echo -n 6 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
4)
echo -n 5 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
3)
echo -n 4 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
2)
echo -n 3 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
1)
echo -n 2 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
0)
echo -n 1 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
*)
echo -n 7 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness;
;;
esac
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Postby Stevie » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:53 pm

hey bobribbon !

wow that was a fast answer :)
i had a look in the \var\log\acpid but i couldnt find a trigger for brightness :/
so i guess my keys really arent recognized...
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Postby bobribbon » Sun Jan 20, 2008 7:57 pm

That's a shame... However my keys also didn't show up using xev, but there is an entry in \var\log\acpid saying:
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[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] received event "video LCD 00000086 00000000"
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] notifying client 4757[107:116]
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] notifying client 4829[0:0]
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] executing action "\etc\acpi\video_brightnessup.sh"
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] END HANDLER MESSAGES
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] action exited with status 0
[Sun Jan 20 20:56:05 2008] completed event "video LCD 00000086 00000000"


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Postby Stevie » Sun Jan 20, 2008 8:15 pm

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Postby bobribbon » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:40 pm

How about \var\log\messages?
Any 'Unknown key released' events there?
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Postby Stevie » Tue Jan 22, 2008 12:15 am

hi bobribbon!

that was the first place i had a look at but
i couldnt find anything :(

i guess its some kernel-problem or the lack of a module.
but to be honest, i really have no clue how i could solve this.

greets,

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