I also have a Dell laptop - Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2. The brightness
controls on the keyboard (Fn + Up & Down) work fine, but the brightness
applet does not. I would also like HAL compiled with --with-dell-
backlight if possible.
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
This is what I originally asked, to include libsmbios and have it
working with their HAL. Check the first comment. The guy rejected my
bug. What more should I do to make him understand that he needs to
backport code to his HAL?
And I can't just recompile HAL. As Tigrux said above, simply recompili
Eugenia, culprit is a very harsh word - perhaps *asking* for the
libsmbios stuff to be backported might have been a nicer way to ask for
a solution. If the Ubuntu guys don't want to backport, then you'll have
to build HAL from source yourself - this is all very new.
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HAL is not built with libsm
BTW, my hardware buttons about brightness WORK (on both my laptops).
What doesn't work is the Brightness Gnome APPLET. And when I emailed the
applet author and looked at it he concluded that the culprit is your
HAL.
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
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Could you please reopen this bug?
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Actually the problem is HAL. The Brightness author asked me to debug it
for him and he concluded that HAL is not built with --with-dell-
backlight option. If it was, the libsmbios package would have been
automatically included in Feisty's ISO. So I am not sure what separate
file I should file and w
If backlight is not working in feisty, then please file a separate bug
report so we can find the root cause. On a recent test with a stack of
Dell laptops, we found that they all had working brightness controls
with Herd 5 (no tested were performed for earlier releases).
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HAL is not built with
The hal in feisty has built-in smbios support:
* probe-smbios.c : Probe system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI
standard
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
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