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Re: Insufficient brightness levels with custom sony-laptop module :-(

 

Just a naive question, just in case: are you sure you're in "Stamina" mode?
The brightness cannot be controlled while in nvidia mode at the moment.

Best regards,

Joël

-- Sent from my Android phone. Please excuse my brevity.
On Feb 22, 2012 9:17 PM, "Flavio" <fbcyborg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 22 February 2012 21:06, vick <weasalandme@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That file is only writable by root on my system so try sudo echo 2 > ...
> I am trying to do it as root!
> The value changes, but the brightness doesn't decrease.
>
> > Also I don't have any acpi scripts and KDE brightness adjustment works
> just fine for me. I'm using np8 version of the module though.
> So, could you help me to understand what happens on my Gentoo Linux then?
> I really don't understand what happens.
>
> As regard the installation process I've done as it follows:
> make
> make test
> make install
>
> modprobe sony-laptop
>
> --
> Flavio
>
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