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Message #00183
Re: backlight fix in KDE
What version are you using? With my 4810tz BIOS 1.3 Kubuntu 9.10 the
brightness keys worked out of the box and incremented levels 20 at a time.
Adding the nomodeset.... allowed me to change increments by 10.
Might be BIOS that fixed it.
-Dan
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Miguel Branco <mig.jcb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello there,
> I'm happy with my 4810T so far, I have no noise at all and almost
> everything works.
> However, while the 'nomodeset acpi_backlight=...' fix for the backlight is
> perfect in Gnome, it doesn't work at all in KDE.
>
> The script fix works, but it's unpractical to input the password each time
> you want to change the brightness.
> I'm not even mentioning that you lose the option of using the built in
> sliders.
>
> Does anyone know another option or hybrid way that works on KDE? I'd even
> be happy if I could say setpci doesn't need sudo.
>
> Thanks,
> Miguel
>
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