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  1. Bug #145337
  2. Comment #27

Comment 27 for bug 145337

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Francisco Borges (francisco-borges) wrote : Re: [Bug 145337] Re: Brightness key stopped working after update [Gutsy]

Running KDE on Dell Inspiron here.

Using KDE power manager does work.

From the console, with KDE running, I can change the brightness settings using:

% dcop power-manager-6385 power-manager brightnessUp

% dcop power-manager-6385 power-manager brightnessDown

(Use "% dcop power-manager-6385 power-manager" to see all the options).

[...]

However, the brightness keys don't work. What the brightness keys do
is to execute /etc/acpi/video_brightnessdown.sh and
/etc/acpi/video_brightnessup.sh. (Anyone wanting to check this should
use xev and 'lshal -m')

These scripts only call "/usr/bin/acpi_fakekey" with the correct key number.

So the problem seems to be on the "acpi-support" package.

kind regards,
--
Francisco