[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#621784: acpi-support: Enable Brightness Control Function Keys for NEC Lavie Models

[Michael Meskes]

> > Do the keys without remapping create ab acpi event? You can try this with kacpimon.
> Unfortunately not - without the setkeycodes get the following output
> with kacpimon:
> 
> Input Layer:  Type: 4  Code: 4  Value: 103
> Input Layer:  Sync
> Input Layer:  Type: 4  Code: 4  Value: 103
> Input Layer:  Sync
> Input Layer:  Type: 4  Code: 4  Value: 101
> Input Layer:  Sync
> Input Layer:  Type: 4  Code: 4  Value: 101
> Input Layer:  Sync

Sorry, I don't really understand this. These are events that are created right?
But you said there was no event created. What do I miss here?

> I am not that familiar with acpi - is there another way to map these
> events to the video/brightness/* event without the "setkeycodes"?

Yes, please have a look at the files in /etc/acpi/events. They all map events to actions.

Michael

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