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Re: brightness controls not working

 

During acpi_listen pressing FN+F5 gives:
hotkey ATKD 0000002e 00000000hotkey ATKD 0000002e 00000001hotkey ATKD 0000002e 00000002
While FN+F6:
hotkey ATKD 0000001f 00000000hotkey ATKD 0000001f 00000001hotkey ATKD 0000001f 00000002


> From: elchicosinhada@xxxxxxxxx
> To: asus-ul30@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Asus-ul30] brightness controls not working
> Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 06:16:13 +0100
> CC: randomas@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> What says acpi_listen when press FN+F5 and FN+F6?
> 
> On Lunes 01 Febrero 2010 23:14:19 matteo malvezzi escribió:
> > I'm trying to get the brightness controls to work, but the hot keys don't
> >  respond any more. They used to trigger the brightness notification and do
> >  not change brightness until the next reboot, now they just don't respond.I
> >  found that these commands are the only ones that actually work for me to
> >  change brightness: setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=XX
> > with XX between 00 and FF
> > The only hint I found as to what is going on is the following line in
> >  dmesg: [   19.558700] asus_laptop: Brightness ignored, must be controlled
> >  by ACPI video driver
> > 
> > Any suggestions?
> > 
> > 
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