[solved}Brightness change on Pardus 2007.3

[rfpa]

Hi everyone!

First of all, I would like to pay my sincere congratulations to everyone at Pardus. They have done an excellent work!

This distro is the first one to recognize the laptop's sound wheel. Great! But it is also the first distro that doesn't allow me to change the monitor brightness...

These are my display specs:

Display Info
Vendor:  Intel Corporation
  Model:   Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
  Driver:   None (3D Support)

How can I fix this?

Thank you all and keep the good work!

[Michiel]

I do not know which type of laptop you own but have you tried pressing the combinations Fn and arrow up or arrow down keys simultaneously on your keyboard?

At least for my Dell Inspirion this key combination works for the brightness of my screen in both windows and linux OS....

[rfpa]

Thank you for your quick reply.

Yes, I did but the issue here is that the system doesn't allow me to change the brightness, as you can see in the snapshot shown above.

[rfpa]

Anyone? I would really like to stick with Pardus but if can't reduce the brightness of my laptop monitor I will have to call for a substitute. Having the brightness this way is hurting my eyes... :'(

[Willem]

I dunno, but am eager to know if there will be a solution for you problem. And if it exists in another distro, it can be implanted in Pardus as well.

Please file it as a bugreport at: http://bugs.pardus.org.tr

[rfpa]

I never had a similar problem on other distros...I'm sad...I really like Pardus...

[Willem]

As I said, dont be said, just fill out a bugreport and your problem might me fixed in a future release, or a workaround will be offered. 

[Michiel]

What happens BTW when you UNcheck the box before "bightness" in your atttached image?

[rfpa]

Willem, I can manage to fill a bug report...That's turkish? Uouuu!!!

Michiel: It says the same...I tried every possibility...I will await for Pardus 2008 to see if this is fixed..

[Willem]

What you can't read, you can't do wrong. It is jut partely Turkish, most important information is in English. I would rather advise you to mention this as a bug, so you wont be disapointed when it is not fixed in Pardus 2008

[LinuxFanatic]

Hi @all,

I allready sent a bug report for my HP Pavilion Notebook, with same troubles:
http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=7171



Greetings
Gürkan

[LinuxFanatic]

Temporally I change the brightness of the notebook  display with this way:

First step 1.) (for all these commands you need root privileges)
Look with:

Code:

cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

for the available steps for your Display.

You should get an output like this:

Code:

grki-prds grki # cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness
levels:  95 43 20 24 28 32 37 43 50 59 69 81 95
current: 0

From "current: 0" you can see the actual value for the brightness.
And from "levels:  95 ........" you can see the possible/compatible values.


Second Step 2.)
Now you should test any value with this command:

Code:

echo "n" > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

The letter n stands for the value, in example with the number 69 :

Code:

echo "69" > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness

With this way you can control the brightness of HP Pavilion notebooks of dv6000 series. I think it should also work with other notebooks too



Greetings
Gürkan



________
EDIT:

This method works, but of course, it's not a permanent solution: reboot and it goes away.

Currently I'm "coding" for an elegant solution with a shell script in combination with "KlcdDimmer". (-> it is a KDE kicker applet, you can install "KlcdDimmer" with the package manager)   

[rfpa]

Thanks very much LinuxFanatic.

[CaptainCookie]

For me, this has been fixed since the 2008 release

[LinuxFanatic]

For me, this has been fixed since the 2008 release

Yeah - I can confirm that too. Pardus 2008 supports whole hardware of our HP Pavilion dv6010ea and HP Pavilion dv6650eg laptops. All working well