[Bug 173652] Re: Unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks, Intel GMA adapter

2008-10-26 Thread Brian Royer
Not sure what is up with the negative post, I was giving people with Hardy (no backports/unsupported updates) 8.04 a temporary alternative until a full out fix is patched into this LTS. -- Unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks, Intel GMA adapter https://bugs.launchpad.

[Bug 173652] Re: Unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks, Intel GMA adapter

2008-10-24 Thread Brian Royer
Forgot, for anyone who hasn't wrote a script before: Put that in a new file and name the file 'ChangeBacklight.sh' Open up a terminal window and navigate to the directory you saved the file in, i.e 'cd ~/Desktop' Type 'sudo chmod a+x ChangeBacklight.sh' Then just open up the file and set the ba

[Bug 173652] Re: Unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks, Intel GMA adapter

2008-10-24 Thread Brian Royer
Through countless hours of searching, I've compiled two different scripts into one short bash. #!/bin/bash # backlight control (sudo apt-get install xbacklight) # props to everyone in the ubuntu community ~shyce xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL native sudo /etc/init.d/acpid restart a