Acer Laptop Bightness and Volume Hotkeys not working!

Miguel Clara miguelmclara at gmail.com
Sat Jun 22 23:35:07 UTC 2013


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On 06/23/13 00:17, Miguel Clara wrote:
> 
> I have an Acer (S3-391) laptop, its a recent model with an SSD and
> HHD for a very nice price.
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 10-current, because of the wireless driver.
> 
> I notice I can't use the brightness hotkeys (Fn + Left/Right
> Arrows) even with acpi_video...
> 
> Als has the subject states I can't use audio hotkeys too (Fn +
> UP/DOWN arrows), but I'm not sure if I would need to load any extra
> module to do this!
> 
> Can anybody advice on this?
> 
> 
> Many Thanks,
> 
> 
> Mike
> 

The sound hotkey "problem" is fixed, I forgot to set my keyboard
Layout properly in KDE.... setting it to "Acer Laptop" fixed this!

But I still have the brightness issue, and xbacklight gives me this:

xbacklight -get
No outputs have backlight property



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