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Comment 3 for bug 629358

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mlx (myxal-mxl) wrote : Re: Incorrect response to Brightness Up/Down keys

Darn, meant to add new info rather than change the original description...

Anyway, I found a kernel from around the time Maverick alpha1 was released - Linux 2.6.35-020635rc3-generic x86_64 from Ubuntu's mainline kernel repository> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.35-rc3-maverick/ and indeed the buttons now work perfectly. xrandr --prop still shows two Backlight properties and and KDE's brightness indicator rarely shows up when it should (I've seen it once or twice in ~2 minutes I've played with the buttons) which didn't happen before but I could live with that.

Interestingly, showkey -s now reports nothing upon pressing either of the brightness keys. Setting the brightness through software (Powerdevil, xrandr --set) still works fine.