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Re: Adam's patch on non Ubuntu system?

 

Doesn't work for me either. It says:

alex@alex-VPCZ133GM:~$ nvclock -S -10 -f
Unable to shadow the video bios
Error!
Smartdimmer is only supported on certain (HP/Samsung/Sony/Zepto) laptops
using a Geforce 6200/7x00Go/8x00Go. If you want support on your laptop
contact the author.



2011/8/20 Joël Bourquard <joel.bourquard@xxxxxxxxx>

> Does this work for everyone?
>
> It didn't work on my Z13, last time I tried... :-\
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joël
>
> -- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> On Aug 20, 2011 1:56 AM, "Norbert Preining" <preining@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Fr, 19 Aug 2011, Alex Safiullin wrote:
> >> For me this issue is a show-stopper - my eyes can't stand more that 10
> >> minutes of max brightness with NVidia....
> >
> > nvclock -S -10 ....
> > one only needs to bind this command to the acpi key of brightness
> > in case nvidia is running and brightness works.
> >
> > Best wishes
> >
> > Norbert
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Norbert Preining preining@{jaist.ac.jp, logic.at, debian.org}
> > JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer
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