Bug#485465: battle for the brightness

[Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:13:36 +0800, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:

> Ah, this workaround finally worked:
> # rmmod thinkpad-acpi; modprobe thinkpad-acpi brightness_mode=2
> 
> Fn End typed after this apparently last even thru reboots!
> 
> OK, until bug is fixed I'm sticking that line in ~root/.bash_profile
> as apparently no way to put parameters into /etc/default/acpid.
> 
'options thinkpad-acpi brightness_mode=2' in /etc/modutils/something
should work.

> (Wonder what the original parameter was.
> Apparently there is no way to check what parameters a running module uses.)

Should be in /sys/modules/thinkpad-acpi/parameters/

Cheers,
Julien