Re: Questions on adding backlight support for the i915 driver

From: Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 14:48:49 +0000
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Clara <miguelmclara_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 10:21 PM, Alexandr Krivulya <
> shuriku_at_shurik.kiev.ua> wrote:
>
>> 31.01.2015 10:30, Miguel Clara пишет:
>> > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Elizabeth Myers <
>> elizabeth_at_interlinked.me>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> >> On 01/31/15 02:15, Miguel Clara wrote:
>> >>> Working fine on a HP running current as I've noted in the other thread
>> >>> as for the keys.
>> >>> This one (and most HP Pavillion models) use the Fn+F(2/3) but the
>> keys,
>> >>> and my Acer (and I think not all are like this) use "Fn+<-/->"
>> >> If your keys work (as in, they do things in FreeBSD), does sysctl and
>> >> the keys work together just fine with no weird effects?
>> >>
>> >> The only weird problem I could possibly think of that could come up is
>> >> that the keys do a simple add/subtract to the PCM values, and so the
>> >> brightness ends up wrong. See if that happens.
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Well, in the HP the keys don't do nothing it seems not even "xev"
>> reports
>> > anything when I use them, but they could be wrongly mapped maybe...
>> >
>> > On the acer I do see keycodes from xev, but Im using lumina and If I
>> try to
>> > map them to anything it doesn't work... I'll see what happens after
>> reboot
>> > though.
>> >
>> >
>> All works fine (sysctl and Fn-keys) on my Thinkpad E530 with IvyBridge!
>>
>
> I my case it seems the issue wih the keys is that FreeBSD doesn't really
> "know about them".
>
> In the Acer laptop, it compiled and installed fine, and after reboot the
> sysctl works awesome, but I add to map the keycodes in fluxbox:
> None 239        :Exec   intel_backlight decr
> None 123        :Exec   intel_backlight incr
>
> I use the intel_backlight program still cause its easier to send the
> "decr" and "incr".
>
> Forgot to add The acer is running FreeBSD 10 (stable/10) so eventually
this could be merged!
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