Package: kernel
Severity: normal
On the ul80vt / ul30vt asus laptop range, the backlight is not being set as it
should be by gnome / most applications and the keyboard shortcut assigned by
asus.
If you look at http://forum.notebookreview.com/5665108-post1246.html
One can edit some acpi files and use 'setpci' to change the brightness of the
laptop's display.
e.g.
setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=${brightness}
This will allow you to use the laptop hotkeys to change the brightness level.
However, this will not result in gnome gaining the capacity to 'autodim'.
I have filed this as a kernel bug, but this might be an acpi bug.
The issue exists on debian squeeze and debian lenny. It is also present on a
2.6.35.2 kernel.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
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