Comment 219 for bug 1098216

(In reply to comment #92)
> (In reply to comment #90)
> > I've tried to apply the patchset to git master and it doesn't seem to
> > completely fine on my ThinkPad x230.
> >
> > Brightness keys still don't work on console on pure X. If a power manager
> is
>
> Right, we have no way to make it work I'm afraid. The current mechanism is to
> let intel_backlight handle the brightness change and ACPI video handle hotkey
> event delivery. So when the event is sent out, if no user space tool reacts
> to
> it, then nothing would happen.

Can't the acpi part handling the hotkey even pass the message to intel_backlight?
>
> > running (xfce4-power-manager) it will work but it already worked on 3.9 so
> I'm
>
> I don't understand how v3.9 could work? Are you already using some xorg.conf
> to
> specify which backlight interface to use(i.e. intel_backlight in this case)?

I'm not. I need to double check I'm not doing anything fancy. I tested using the Debian kernel so maybe there are some patches (although it seems unlikely).