After almost screwing up my whole system I eventually managed to install
the new catalyst driver...
Would there an easier way other than follow these instructions to upgrade
catalyst?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
Otherwise whoever has trouble installing the drivers can
That's what gnome-power-manager is reporting:
gnome-power-manager --verbose
TI:12:56:18 TH:0x854c6d8FI:gpm-brightness.c FN:gpm_brightness_up,257
- no hardware support
Is the problem related to the fact that HAL is not loaded any more? It was
working fine before the upgrade...
But w
If I run hald first, it get the vendor and product string...
sudo hald
lshal | grep system.hardware.vendor
system.hardware.vendor = 'Hewlett-Packard' (string)
lshal | grep system.hardware.product
system.hardware.product = 'HP EliteBook 6930p' (string)
But how should changing a HAL related
Tried to run lshal on my EliteBook 6930p and got this:
Could not initialise connection to hald.
Normally this means the HAL daemon (hald) is not running or not ready.
Adding 6930p to the file didn't help either.
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Cannot adjust brightness in Lucid Lynx
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/55512
HP EliteBook 6930p has similar issues after upgrade to 10.4. It even
managed to dim the display when plugging the AC cord IN after it was on
full brightness running on Battery. Neither FN keys nor Brightness
Applet work properly. I can't even grab the trigger, because the window
disappears on click
