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Post subject: thinkpad backlight turning off when ac adaptor is unplugged  PostPosted: 12.02.2011, 23:05



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After 2 years of using sidux/aptosid, I recently went through a complete reinstallation of my thinkpad x61s. I installed aptosid-2011-01-geras-amd64 and the backlight behaves in an unexpected way.

While the AC adaptor is plugged in and backlight is set to the max, it works as intended, but if I drop backlight brightness one step, either through the dedicated keys or the /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/ files, or if I unplug the AC then the backlight turns off and the screen goes black.

I also tried setting kde power management to use the same power profile when unplugged and set brightness to max in all power profiles but it as no effect.

I search thinkwiki but found no reference to this.

Any idea what may be causing this and how to fix it ?

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Here's dmesg thinkpad-acpi's output about brightness:

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thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24
thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 7NETB7WW (2.17 ), EC 7MHT25WW-1.03
thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s, model 7669A32
thinkpad_acpi: detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad
thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not loading native one.


Interestingly, /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness has a value of 15. Unplugging the power cord doesn't change /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness value which stays at 15. When plugged, changing the value to 14 makes the screen go black.

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System: Host ponya Kernel 2.6.37-0.slh.18-aptosid-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Debian GNU/Linux 6.0
CPU: Dual core Intel Core2 Duo L7500 (-MCP-) clocked at 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org 1.7.7 Res: 1024x768@50.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa DRI Intel 965GM GEM 20091221 2009Q4 GLX Version 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1
Disks: HDD Total Size: 160.0GB (65.7% used)
Info: Processes 145 Uptime 44 min Memory 639.9/1972.3MB Client Shell inxi 1.4.23
 
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Post subject: RE: thinkpad backlight turning off when ac adaptor is unplug  PostPosted: 13.02.2011, 22:38



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And here is my answer: http://www.aptosid.com/index.php?name=P ... &t=653
 
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