On a Dell C610 running Hardy Alpha5 the dimmer works on AC,
but not on battery. I assume that's how it's designed.
On AC it indicates that it dims from 100% to 0%, but this is
not quite right. The lowest setting (0%) does not blank the
screen, but puts it at where the screen is on battery power.
Confirmed on Thinkpad X40.
Furthermore, issuing
echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
doesn't do anything (like it used to)
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"Display brightness" slider does not show up on Dell Latitude D810
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I can confirm this on a ThinkPad X32.
Running gutsy with all updates,
uname -a
prints "Linux skx 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007
i686 GNU/Linux".
If I do
# cat /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness
I get "" like Shadows_Friend, but
# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
I get
"
I think my problem is located in the fact that there I have no real
ACPI-support for my Acer-model. The brightness control via the hotkeys
seems to be done by the BIOS not by any ACPI-event. Even the available
"acer-acpi" module doesn't support my Travelmate C200 series notebook. I
hardly have acce
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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I have exactly the same issue on my Acer Travelmate C202TMi. I can
control the brightness via the hotkeys. But neither the slider in the
gnome-power-manager (In fact the slider is not there) nor the brightness
applet work. I'm running on the latest Gutsy with all available updates.
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the problem is still present as of aug. 8th, all updates applied.
Unfortunately i don't have a chance to try out gutsy at the moment.
sorry for that.
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"Display brightness" slider does not show up on Dell Latitude D810
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** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Low
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