Comments on tips-computer-lenovoX61t-gnuLinuxSetup

This is what I did to get the backlight brightness buttons working:

change /etc/acpi/thinkpad-brightness-down.sh to just: /usr/bin/xbacklight -8

and /etc/acpi/thinkpad-brightness-.sh to just: /usr/bin/xbacklight +7

and comment the rest out.

(If the 2 numbers are relatively prime you can set the brightness to the nearest 1 unit by "twiddling" up and down.)

Useful tool for keeping track of changes to config files: apt-get install etckeeper. On a laptop, put resolv.conf in .git/info/exclude -- since dhcp overwrites it.

-- Don Marti 2008-04-05 01:40 UTC