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Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:57:32 +0000
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>
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Subject: Re: regression since 2.6.36: backlight in sony-laptop not working
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On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 12:50:27PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> THen the problem is simply that the acpi events are not coming through
> when pressing the respective keys.

Then yes, that's probably related to sony-laptop. If you run evtest 
against the /dev/input/event device that corresponds to sony-laptop, 
what events do you get when you hit the brightness keys?

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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