@Mario Schwalbe: nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.7 for lucid works for my sony vaio vgn-fz11sr.
On fresh Lucid. Just install the package, add line "nvidia-bl max_level=1026" to /etc/modules and reboot. Does not work properly without parameter on my laptop. Parameters values that work are from 1024 to 1029 or so... Just one thing more, I can not set full backlight with hotkeys (Fn+F5/F6), always one step lower. If I press BrightnessUp key many many times Smartdimmer still shows 95, the maximum is 100, "cat /sys/class/backlight/bla-bla-bla" is one step lower the maximum too. All other backlight functions work just fine. The problem on VAIOs is that there is no laptop_panel device in hal with proprietary nvidia driver. There are some scripts to manage backlight through Smartdimmer on VAIOs and Smartdimmer works fine in latest Ubuntu distros. But these scripts do not work because hal does not recognize laptop_panel device. Backlight management works fine with nouveau driver but this driver has no 3D acceleration yet. -- no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Gnome Powermanager: Invalid Status in The Linux Kernel: Incomplete Status in Mactel Support: New Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: Binary package hint: devicekit-power A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal... In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight... As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management ! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic SourcePackage: devicekit-power Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
