On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 08:50:07 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote: >> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: >> >> > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen. >> >> (...) >> >> Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically >> adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient light. >> This can be turned off in windows but I dunno if there is such utility >> for linux :-? >> >> What video driver are you loading? > > > This is a laptop (6735s) and is over a year old so not very new. I don't > think it has that "feature". > > It uses the radeon driver.
You will find out in the BIOS screen. If the feature is there, there should be an option to toggle it on/off under "system configuration menu/ buit-in options" Also, check for a BIOS update, most of these "ACPI things" are usually fixed after updating to the latest BIOS. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.04.23.10.53...@gmail.com
