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Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:23 am
by yaslam
Hi, I have a Thinkpad T410 and the brightness keys do not work in MATE desktop, how do I make them work?
Thanks

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am
by neville
Do you have the appropriate module loaded?

Try in a terminal as root

kldload acpi_ibm

If that doesn't work try

kldload acpi_video

And see if that helps

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:21 am
by neville

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:21 am
by neville

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:43 am
by chadbsd

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:00 pm
by yaslam
neville wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:18 am Do you have the appropriate module loaded?

Try in a terminal as root

kldload acpi_ibm

If that doesn't work try

kldload acpi_video

And see if that helps
Ah sorry for not replying, this did not work.

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:06 pm
by yaslam
The brightness keys don't work but doing "sysctl dev.api_ibm.0.lcd_brightness=0" or any other number works.

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:16 pm
by yaslam
This worked :D . I used the information at https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?que ... ease-ports in the EXAMPLES section to make the brightness keys work.
And now it works perfectly!

Re: Brightness keys Thinkpad T410

Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2024 1:34 pm
by yaslam
chadbsd wrote: Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:43 am Here's a workaround. https://codeberg.org/nansys-dev/brightness-control
Thanks for the workaround. :)