Display brightness keys suddenly stopped working

[Clemens Eisserer]

Any idea what the reason could be it has worked before, but is now broken?

As the brightness-plugin works fine when used with the mouse, I guess
the function-keys are not bound corrently, or the programm which
listened to it before (and caused that brightness-popup to appear) is
no longer operational.

Any hints how I could track down that issue are very welcome :)

Thank you in advance, Clemens

2012/2/21 Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
>> I have xubuntu 11.10 on an Acer laptop and have to boot back into XP to
>> change the brightness.  As you say I seem to remember that it *did* work
>> once.
>
> I am running Fedora-16 and I am absolutly sure it did work 2 weeks ago
> - seems like some updates have broken it.
> Using the brightness-plugin works, but only when adjusting brightness
> with the slider - function keys don't work.
>
> Fedora-16
> Toshiba Tecra A8
>
> Thanks, Clemens
>
> lspci-output:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML
> and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS,
> 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME,
> 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High
> Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express
> Port 1 (rev 02)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express
> Port 3 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
> Controller #3 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI
> Controller #4 (rev 02)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI
> Controller (rev 02)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface
> Bridge (rev 02)
> 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family)
> SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
> 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG
> [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
> 03:0b.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
> 03:0b.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCIxx12 OHCI Compliant
> IEEE 1394 Host Controller
> 03:0b.3 SD Host controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard
> Compliant SD Host Controller