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[Konstantin Maslov <conma@xxxxxxxxx>]

@Mario Schwalbe: nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.7 for lucid works for my sony vaio
vgn-fz11sr.

On fresh Lucid. Just install the package, add line "nvidia-bl
max_level=1026" to /etc/modules and reboot. Does not work properly
without parameter on my laptop. Parameters values that work are from
1024 to 1029 or so...

Just one thing more, I can not set full backlight with hotkeys
(Fn+F5/F6), always one step lower. If I press BrightnessUp key many many
times Smartdimmer still shows 95, the maximum is 100, "cat
/sys/class/backlight/bla-bla-bla" is one step lower the maximum too. All
other backlight functions work just fine.

The problem on VAIOs is that there is no laptop_panel device in hal with
proprietary nvidia driver. There are some scripts to manage backlight
through Smartdimmer on VAIOs and Smartdimmer works fine in latest Ubuntu
distros. But these scripts do not work because hal does not recognize
laptop_panel device.

Backlight management works fine with nouveau driver but this driver has
no 3D acceleration yet.

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no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723
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Status in Gnome Powermanager: Invalid
Status in The Linux Kernel: Incomplete
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in X.Org X server: Confirmed
Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Invalid

Bug description:
Binary package hint: devicekit-power

A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal...
In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight...

As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management !

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-power
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64