Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
>> >   I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are >> > fairly different. >> >> My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have >> them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with >> nothing so I don't think they're being installed anymo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:06:17 -0700, Grant wrote: > >   I do have baselayout1.start/stop stuff so it seems our systems are > > fairly different. > > My new install doesn't have them, but all of my old installs do have > them and 'equery b /etc/local.d/baselayout1.start' comes back with > nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
[snip] >> Hey Mark, I'm happy to say I just fixed the screen backlighting on my >> system, but I'm sorry to say I don't think it will help you with >> keyboard backlighting.  To fix it, I removed 'acpi_backlight=vendor' >> from grub and added 'echo 0 > >> /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/bright

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >   acpi_listen on n-ArrowUp/Dn does produce a response so maybe I > don't have something properly mapped? It seems that on this Asus laptop the Fn-Arrow keys are mapped to audio events of some type. (Reading xev responses) Looking at my keyb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Grant wrote: >> Grant, >>   Sorry I missed this thread earlier. I've got an Asus 17" laptop >> that I've been trying unsuccessfully to get the keyboard backlighting >> to work correctly for weeks (maybe months - I no longer remember how >> long) On my machine I g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbackli

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Grant wrote: >>> On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight >>> with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values >>> cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts >>> don't work unless I map

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-16 Thread Grant
>> On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight >> with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values >> cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts >> don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbacklight >> d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-04 Thread Grant
>> On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight >> with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'.  Any other values >> cause the screen to blink and flash.  The keyboard backlight shortcuts >> don't work unless I map them to xbacklight 0 and 100.  Also xbacklight >> d

[gentoo-user] Re: Backlight problems

2012-03-04 Thread walt
On 03/04/2012 01:16 PM, Grant wrote: > On my just-released Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook, I can control the backlight > with 'xbacklight -set 0' and 'xbacklight -set 100'. Any other values > cause the screen to blink and flash. The keyboard backlight shortcuts > don't work unless I map them to xbacklight