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[Emiel Kollof <emiel.kollof@xxxxxxxxx>]

With that new BIOS, I didn't need to. It just works out of the box
with karmic and Fedora 12. Only thing that is still broken is that
mousepad-disable key.

2009/11/27 Jim <jimbojones443@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Emiel, I hope this isn't a silly question, but did you still need nomodeset
> and acpi_backlight=vendor as kernel boot parameteres?
>
> Jim
>
> On Thursday 26 November 2009 13:22:05 Emiel Kollof wrote:
>> Maybe you should update your BIOS. I upgraded to 2.31 on my 5810T and
>> all the backlight issues are gone with Ubuntu *and* Fedora 12.
>>
>> 2009/11/26 JimboJones <jimbojones443@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > FWIW, I disabled all the powersaving "features" in KDE via the System
>> > Settings module, and killed the KDE battery monitor in task manager and
>> > just use gnome-power-manager.
>> >
>> > With gnome-power-manager the backlight keys work, the screen dims
>> > automatically, etc. Of course, I've also got the nomodeset and
>> > acpi_baclight=vendor as kernel boot params. I read on lesswatts.org that
>> > gpm is always waking the CPU, but I don't have that issue on my machine.
>> >
>> > There is some backlight flickering sometimes.
>> > 4810T, 1.10 BIOS, Fedora 12 beta.
>> >
>> > Jim
>> >
>> > On 11/16/2009 04:33 PM, Miguel Branco wrote:
>> >
>> > @Dan
>> > Thanks for the reply. I'm using Ubuntu Karmic with kubuntu-desktop
>> > installed on top.
>> > I bricked my first timeline on a BIOS downgrade so I'm not feeling too
>> > bold on trying an upgrade. My BIOS (for the 4810t) is 1.10.
>> >
>> > @Thomas
>> > Add the following to the GRUB_CMD_LINUX_DEFAULT entry in
>> > /etc/default/grub: nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor
>> >
>> > and then run sudo update-grub on the terminal.
>> >
>> > This fixed it all in gnome for me and others.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 23:13, Dan LeVasseur <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> 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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