[Tfug] First thoughts on Ubuntu Karmic 64bit alpha4

[Tyler Nienhouse]

Yeah, they are FN+Up arrow and FN+Down arrow. Gnome recognizes that I'm
pressing them and shows the brightness level as being lowered, but the
actually brightness never goes down.

In Jaunty "xrandr –output LVDS –set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL native" fixed the
issue.
--
Tyler


On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 23:25, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Tyler
> Nienhouse<flakeparadigm at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Karmic is definitely running nice so far. The HDA audio handling is
> perfect
> > thanks to the new version of ALSA! My laptop has an Intel GM965/GL960
> > graphics card and I can't control the screen brightness. In Jaunty I can
> use
> > an xrandr command, but I can't any more. I'm thinking this is because of
> the
> > new dynamic display method. Could anyone help me with this one?
> > --
> > Tyler
>
>
> On my Dell 1525, the Dell special keys for brightness are working just
> fine.  Does your keyboard have a bright up/down key sequence?
>
> Jim
>
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