So with acpid I can see the volume / mute events, but not the backlight key or Thinklight events. For the ones that work, I haven't defined any rules. On the other hand, in dmesg I can see that thinkpad-acpi loads in dmesg, but defers to the built-in modules to the tune of: "This Thinkpad has standard ACPI brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver" and "input: Thinkpad Extra buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input7".
Also, actkbd doesn't seem to detect any of the special keys at all...
Not a whole lot of that means much to me, any clarification would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks a bunch!
R
UPDATE: Installing graphics-3.16.6-tinycore64 made the brightness hotkeys work (while trying to fix resolution). Yay! Still no volume keys.