Marc-André Turcotte wrote: > In the 2.6.29-1 mainline kernel, on jaunty, "grep -r ./proc/acpi/video"
You need the space between . and /proc/acpi/video otherwise the grep won't work. The . is the search argument. > gets stuck. I looked in that folder and there is no file in it. For he If there are no files in that folder, that means there is no generic acpi interface active. So the grep won't show anything anyway. > dmsg part, i' not sure what I have to do, but raising or lowering the > brightness didn't change the output of dmsg The dmesg is useful to see whether acer-wmi gets loaded and probably what messages it prints and maybe other things that might be interesting. The backlight control for acer should be found under /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/backlight/acer-wmi/ From the code I am not completely sure how the nodes will be called, you can help me with that. Does reading/writing there change the brightness? -- Cannot change brightness with 2.6.27-11+ kernel https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333386 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
