Re: Backlight control on Lombard PB

On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

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I saw a couple of posts from people who seem to have the recent kernels
(2.2.17pre1[3-5]-ben1) running on a 1999 Powerbook.
Unfortunately, I have still the same problems with the backlight control
that first appeared with 2.2.17pre10-ben1, i.e.

1. {Fn-,}F[12] don't adjust brightness
2. After wakeup from sleep, the backlight remains dark

I fixed this recently. I didn't yet post a new precompiled kernel, but I
will do soon.

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I rsync'd last night, but I'll try again this evening.

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At least it does not seem to crash anymore when I try to repeatedly wake
it up, but the only thing I can do at that point is to reboot.
Has anyone one of these kernels working on a Lombard and is actually able
to use sleep (or adjust monitor brightness)?

Besides, the keycodes 10 and 50 (less/greater and asciicircum/degree) on
the german keyboard seem to have been swapped in pre13-pre15.

Actually, I think it's more that they are now correct (they used to be
wrong) ;) You should probably update your keymaps.

Must have been wrong for quite a while, but I vaguely recall some problems
with those keys when I first installed Linux (think ^/deg was giving <>
then, and <> did nothing at all, or vice versa).

Thanks,
							Derek


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On Tue, Aug 08, Derek Homeier wrote:

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Besides, the keycodes 10 and 50 (less/greater and asciicircum/degree) on
the german keyboard seem to have been swapped in pre13-pre15.

Actually, I think it's more that they are now correct (they used to be
wrong) ;) You should probably update your keymaps.

Must have been wrong for quite a while, but I vaguely recall some problems
with those keys when I first installed Linux (think ^/deg was giving <>
then, and <> did nothing at all, or vice versa).

Please check it first:

^° should be 50 at console and 58 in X
<> should be 10 at console and 18 in X

Use xev and showkeys to display the values.


Gruss Olaf

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