Bug 972963

Summary:	X230 brightness hotkeys broken
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	clee <clee>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	19	CC:	admiller, fmuellner, mclasen, otaylor, rolle.hoffmann, samkraju, walters
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Description clee 2013-06-10 23:27:18 UTC

Description of problem:
My LCD brightness hotkeys, on the F8 and F9 keys on my ThinkPad X230, do not work correctly on Fedora 19.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use F8 hotkey to try to lower brightness.

Actual results:
Brightness does not lower.

Expected results:
Brightness should lower.

Additional info:
This has been broken on the X230 since Fedora 18. Worked properly in F17.

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2013-06-10 23:54:54 UTC

what do those keys produce in xev ?

Comment 2 clee 2013-06-11 08:10:40 UTC

KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

RRNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property BACKLIGHT, timestamp 71636738, state NewValue

FocusOut event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    mode NotifyGrab, detail NotifyAncestor

FocusIn event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
    keys:  2   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   
           0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   

RRNotify event, serial 36, synthetic NO, window 0x1e00001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property BACKLIGHT, timestamp 71636990, state NewValue

Comment 3 Rolle 2013-11-29 22:04:01 UTC

The same here with Laptop Fujitsu Lifebook E8420.
The FN-Keys don't change the backlight. The symbol occurs on the screen, but the backlight doesn't change the brightness. In gnome-shell the slider in the upper right menu works fine.

lspci -nn
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 07)

Fedora 20 beta, kernel 3.11.9

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