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[Bug 951736] Re: Cannot change brightness on laptop with ATI Radeon 6470M

 

It's in the Quantal variant of the LTS Enablement Stack.  Can you retest
and set the status of this bug to "Fix Released" it the issue is gone?

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Title:
  Cannot change brightness on laptop with ATI Radeon 6470M

Status in The Linux Kernel:
  Fix Released
Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  "When I press Fn+F9 or F10 which are the keyboard buttons to
  decrease/increase the screen brightness of my HP Probook 6560b laptop,
  nothing happens."

  This was quoted from the following bug from the kernel.org bugtracker
  which has some more infos:
  https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40862

  I manually installed the precise kernel on my oneiric install to see
  if it is fixed with a newer kernel, didn't help.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 1:6.14.99~git20110811.g93fc084-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar 10 20:02:31 2012
  InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111011)
  SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-ati
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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