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["Doug \"SuperDuG\" Smith" <superdug@xxxxxxxxx>]

Which PPA would that be?  I'm very interested in getting my screen to 
stop flickering, but not at the price of 60% brightness.

I've been to: https://launchpad.net/~asus-ul30 
<https://launchpad.net/%7Easus-ul30>

And it is of little help to me, it just looks like multiplayer notepad 
where some markup is there, but most isn't.

On 05/11/2010 05:19 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
> I recently realized that the LCD brightness used with the setpci 
> command isn't 0-99, but instead 0-FF.
>
> Strangely for every time I hit the dim/bright key the 
> /etc/acpi/asus-brn-down/up.sh is called 3 times.  Alas the proper step 
> (16) isn't divisible by 3.  Instead of messing with floating point I 
> just made the value bounce off the upper/lower limits cleanly.
>
> Is it expected that the up/down scripts would be called 3 times per 
> keypress of Fn-f5 and Fn-f6?
>
> I'm using the 2.6.34 PPA kernel and 
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor"
>
> The new improved script should allow control over the full range of 
> the LCD and be rather close to the scale shown by the brightness dialog:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
> export SEED=6
> if [ ! -f ~/.brightness ]; then
>     echo 99 > ~/.brightness;
> fi
> export BRIGHTNESS=`cat ~/.brightness`
> case "$1" in
>         "up")
>                 export BRIGHTNESS=$[$BRIGHTNESS+$SEED];
>         ;;
>         "down")
>                 export BRIGHTNESS=$[$BRIGHTNESS-$SEED];
>         ;;
>         *)
>                 export BRIGHTNESS=1;
>         ;;
> esac
> if [ "$BRIGHTNESS" -gt "255" ]; then
>     export BRIGHTNESS=255;
> fi
> if [ "$BRIGHTNESS" -lt "0" ]; then
>     export BRIGHTNESS=0;
> fi
> echo $BRIGHTNESS > ~/.brightness
> export hexbright=`/usr/bin/printf "%X" $BRIGHTNESS`
> sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=$hexbright
>
>
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