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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] 13.1 - screen brightness stuck on high - unresponsive to fn keys - how to fix?
From:       Alvin Beach <alvinbeach () gmail ! com>
Date:       2014-07-14 22:53:00
Message-ID: 53C45F4C.3040509 () gmail ! com
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On 14/07/14 19:34, David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 07/14/2014 04:51 PM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Monday 14 of July 2014 16:09:07 David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> Judging from the values, /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness is the
>>> correct one and a value of 7 is the brightest of the 8 steps [0-8]. Testing:
>>>
>>> # for i in `seq 0 7`; do echo $i >
>>> /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness; sleep 1; done
>>>
>>> Steps perfectly through all 8 levels of brightness. How do we get the fn
>>> keys to work properly?
>>
>> Try running acpi_listen as root. Does any of the brightness keys trigger an
>> event? If not, then the toshiba_acpi kernel module for Toshiba laptops should
>> be loaded. If it is already loaded, are there any related error messages in
>> the system log?
>>
>> It's too late here, I'll be going to sleep shortly.
>>
> 
> We are making progress:
> 
> [16:35 alchemy:/home/david] # acpi_listen
> bash: acpi_listen: command not found
> 

On my 12.3 box, rpm tells me:

# rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/acpi_listen

acpid-2.0.17-2.4.1.x86_64

HTH,

Alvin


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