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[Bug 599607] Re: nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10 Blank screen on brightness change

 

** Description changed:

- I am a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX (Nvidia 310M) running Lucid.
+ I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX (Nvidia 310M) running Lucid.
  
  After I installed nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10 the brightness buttons showed the brightness indicator but I didn't move.
  Manually writing values to /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness turn the backlight completely off (the backlight only turned back on after a suspend/resume).
  
  Then I copies sony brightness scripts from here:
  
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420341
  
  ... after that, using the brightness buttons on the laptop turned the
  screen off as well.

** Description changed:

  I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX (Nvidia 310M) running Lucid.
  
- After I installed nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10 the brightness buttons showed the brightness indicator but I didn't move.
+ After I installed nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10, the brightness buttons showed the brightness indicator but it didn't move.
  Manually writing values to /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness turn the backlight completely off (the backlight only turned back on after a suspend/resume).
  
  Then I copies sony brightness scripts from here:
  
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420341
  
  ... after that, using the brightness buttons on the laptop turned the
  screen off as well.

** Description changed:

  I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX (Nvidia 310M) running Lucid.
  
  After I installed nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10, the brightness buttons showed the brightness indicator but it didn't move.
  Manually writing values to /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness turn the backlight completely off (the backlight only turned back on after a suspend/resume).
  
- Then I copies sony brightness scripts from here:
+ Then I copied sony brightness scripts from here:
  
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420341
  
  ... after that, using the brightness buttons on the laptop turned the
  screen off as well.

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nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10 Blank screen on brightness change
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Bug description:
I have a Sony Vaio VPCCW21FX (Nvidia 310M) running Lucid.

After I installed nvidia-bl-dkms 0.16.10, the brightness buttons showed the brightness indicator but it didn't move.
Manually writing values to /sys/class/backlight/nvidia_backlight/brightness turn the backlight completely off (the backlight only turned back on after a suspend/resume).

Then I copied sony brightness scripts from here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420341

... after that, using the brightness buttons on the laptop turned the screen off as well.







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