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["K. Posern" <quickhelp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!

But any idea why:

>> When pressing FN+F6 I see this in the acpid log.
>> But FN+F5 does nothing.

So I turned on event logging for my acpid (with -l) and in syslog I only 
see fnf6, but /not/ fnf5 (if pressed)?!

Thanks again!!

Knuth

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On 17/09/10 01:39, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> Hi Knuth
>
> I did the following:
>
> cat /etc/acpi/events/sony-brightness-up
> event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000011
> action=/etc/acpi/sony-brightness.sh up
>
> cat /etc/acpi/events/sony-brightness-down
> event=sony/hotkey SNC 00000001 00000010
> action=/etc/acpi/sony-brightness.sh down
>
> cat /etc/acpi/sony-brightness.sh
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
> use strict;
> open (my $x, "</proc/acpi/video/GFX0/LCD/brightness");
> my @levels;
> my $level;
> while(<$x>){
>     chomp;
>     s/^levels:\s+//&&  do {
>          @levels = split /\s+/;
>     };
>     s/^current:\s+//&&  do {
>          $level = $_;
>     };
> }
> close $x;
> for (my $i=0;$i<= $#levels; $i++){
>      if ($level == $levels[$i]){
>          my $val;
>          if ($ARGV[0] eq 'up'){
>              $i++
>          }
>          else {
>              $i--
>          }
>          if ($i>= 0 and $i<= $#levels){
>             open (my $y, ">/proc/acpi/video/GFX0/LCD/brightness");
>             print $y $levels[$i];
>             close $y;
>          }
>          last;
>      }
> }
>
> Yesterday K. Posern wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am sure I miss something obvious here, but don't know what:
> >
> > I keep reading that the Brightness with Intel works out of the box.
> > But not for me.
> >
> > When pressing FN+F6 I see this in the acpid log.
> > But FN+F5 does nothing.
> >
> > Also: What program will actually increase / decrease the intel brightness?
> >
> > The sony laptop module only passes on / generates the acpi button events, or?
> > -->
> > What should happen to increase decrease the brightness?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!!
> >
> > Knuth

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