f9 on the Asus EEE PC (resume and additional keys)

[Sven Lankes]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:20:34PM +0200, Fabrice Bellet wrote:

>> The machine suspends fine but doesn't resume successfully. The screen
>> stays black on resume. It seems that it is still doing something as
>> pushing the power button after a failed resume suspends the machine
>> again (suspends as in the power led starts blinking again).
 
> You should try to rewrite a value in /proc/acpi/asus/brn _after_
> wakeup. That should reset LCD brightness to a sane value. The part of
> my acpi script (based on eeedora), that works for me with "lid" events
> looks like that :

Thanks for the pointer. That was it.

I have solved it by adding an 

  echo 3 > /proc/acpi/asus/brn

to /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/99video 

I'll try to update the wiki with my findings later today. After
compiling the eeepc-acpi module taken from the debian package my acpi
events now work too. 

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