sony-vaio-z-series team mailing list archive

[Nifty <violentsense@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!


Using nvidia-settings you can't control backlight intensity, you just 
slightly change level of contrast and this setting does not affect the 
power consumption.


Regards,
    Alexandr.



On 11/18/2010 07:57 PM, David Aveiro wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> while using nvidia official drivers I would change brightness in two ways:
>
> 1) execute in shell as root:
>
> nvidia-settings --assign Brightness=X
>
> where X is a value between -1 (lowest brightness) and 1 (very very 
> high brightness, useful if in direct sun, otherwise 0 is quite OK).
>
> 2) execute the graphical interface:
>
> nvidia-settings
>
> the nvidia configuration tool opens where, among other things like 
> configuring other displays, twinview, etc., you can manually change a 
> slider that selects a certain screen brightness.
>
> To lower power consumption you may also try the tips here where most 
> should apply to Gentoo:
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Power_Management_Guide/Example_Laptop.html
>
> Kind regards
> David
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series
> Post to     : sony-vaio-z-series@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series
> More help   : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
>