Just to chime in with a bit more information and a reminder in case we are losing focus, the original bug description concerned the NVidia Geforce 8 series cards, I have a Vaio VGN-SZ71WN which has a 8400 GS card on it, I tried the nvclock mentioned above (nvclock 8 b3) but it tells me:
"Smartdimmer is only supported on certain laptops using a Geforce 6200/7x00Go. If you want support on your laptop contact the author" Which means the original problem is still not solved -- unable to adjust screen brightness on recent Sony Vaio notebooks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/173652 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
