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[Nifty <violentsense@xxxxxxxxx>]

P.S. And I don't recommend to anyone use this method. Your eyes can 
adjust to wrong level of contrast and this can lead to negative results.

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
> >
> >
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