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Message-ID: <20100109170908.GA15755@srcf.ucam.org> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 17:09:08 +0000 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Peter Paul <abnominales@....de> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: ACPI quirks - acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" required on FSC Amilo notebooks to enable brightness keys On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 04:14:14PM +0100, Peter Paul wrote: > The brightness control keys (Fn+F7 & Fn+F8) only work when adding this boot parameter. > They do not create any events for the OS but work even when in BIOS or GRUB, but not in Linux without said kernel parameter. > Userspace tools are able controlling brightness using standard methods regardless of any ACPI parameters, they only seem to affect the keys themselves. What do you mean by "work"? Do you get any ACPI interrupts when you hit the keys without the override parameter? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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