Hi,
I've recently installed FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE with a new Xorg and KMS patch. I've never had any issues with controlling the monitor brightness on my other laptops but this time I've got this issue with my Optimus Dell Inspiron laptop.
Pressing the Fn + F4/F5 combinations doesn't have any effect in KDE4, and the worst is that I don't know where to start looking at, I don't know what thing is responsible for controlling the monitor brightness.
Could you point me in the right direction so I could provide more explicit details about my configuration if anybody is willing to help me?
P.S.
There is one interesting observation. By pressing Fn+F5 (brightness up) in open terminal produces an unlimited sequence of '.' characters which can be interrupted by pressing any key.
Some system details:
I've recently installed FreeBSD 9.0 RELEASE with a new Xorg and KMS patch. I've never had any issues with controlling the monitor brightness on my other laptops but this time I've got this issue with my Optimus Dell Inspiron laptop.
Pressing the Fn + F4/F5 combinations doesn't have any effect in KDE4, and the worst is that I don't know where to start looking at, I don't know what thing is responsible for controlling the monitor brightness.
Could you point me in the right direction so I could provide more explicit details about my configuration if anybody is willing to help me?
P.S.
There is one interesting observation. By pressing Fn+F5 (brightness up) in open terminal produces an unlimited sequence of '.' characters which can be interrupted by pressing any key.
Code:
devel-pc# .......................................
Some system details:
Code:
FreeBSD devel-pc 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Fri Apr 27 15:19:53 EEST 2012
root@devel-pc:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
Xorg: 7.5.2
kde4: 4.7.3
xf86-video-intel: 2.17.0
devel-pc# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 54 0xffffffff80200000 11d2570 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff81612000 1582 fdescfs.ko
3 1 0xffffffff81614000 42a7 linprocfs.ko
4 1 0xffffffff81619000 1e1cb linux.ko
5 1 0xffffffff81638000 328d ng_ubt.ko
6 1 0xffffffff8163c000 8b3d ng_hci.ko
7 3 0xffffffff81645000 a79 ng_bluetooth.ko
8 5 0xffffffff81646000 8e12 netgraph.ko
9 1 0xffffffff8164f000 b4a2 ng_l2cap.ko
10 1 0xffffffff8165b000 1695e ng_btsocket.ko
11 1 0xffffffff81672000 1ba9 ng_socket.ko
12 1 0xffffffff81674000 a96b fuse.ko
13 1 0xffffffff8167f000 5f29b i915.ko
14 1 0xffffffff816df000 1241 iicbb.ko
15 4 0xffffffff816e1000 1307 iicbus.ko
16 1 0xffffffff816e3000 dc9 iic.ko
17 1 0xffffffff816e4000 2c4b2 drm.ko
18 1 0xffffffff81711000 248d acpi_video.ko