On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote:
> On Friday 20 Nov 2009, Gaurav Gehani wrote: > > i am not able to reduce brightness of my lappy. i tried lot of > > searching but that didnt help me though. I downloaded hotkey but > > that too is only showing that animation whn i press lower brightness > > or upper brightness buton. Tried a lot. And this may be the reason > > or any other but the battery back my laptop is giving is only 100 > > mins when I am running linux but it gives upto 200 min when i run > > windows 7. Plz help i am using > > Dell studio 1555 > > and lenny > > If your native laptop brightness controls aren't working for some > reason, you can use xgamma to make your X display brighter or darker. > > xgamma -gamma 0.5 <-- make screen dark > xgamma -gamma 1.3 <-- make screen bright > > Play around with the numbers to get the ones that suit you. > > Tried this but it didnt change anything in brightness Gaurav:/home/gaurav# xgamma -gamma 0.5 -> Red 1.600, Green 1.600, Blue 1.600 <- Red 0.500, Green 0.500, Blue 0.500 Gaurav:/home/gaurav# xgamma -gamma 01.5 -> Red 0.500, Green 0.500, Blue 0.500 <- Red 1.500, Green 1.500, Blue 1.500 brightness was same > > > > + one last but not the least issue i am facing is that my laptop has > > got two jacks where i can plug my earphone/headphone. When i plugin > > in the first one i dont hear anysound neighter in earphone nor from > > pc spearkr. when i do it in second one sound keeps on coming from > > the speaker and it comes in earphone too.... > > Sounds like the second one is the microphone jack, and the sound you're > hearing is a feedback loop between the mic and the speakers. Try > plugging the headphones into the first jack and using a mixer app (kmix > in KDE) to unmute the headphone channel. > > NO, it is not the mic one my laptop has got two jacks for headphone and one for mike. Both the jacks of headphones are working fine in Windows but in linux when i put it in second one both will work i.e headphone and speaker, when i put it in first one none will work :( using gnome volume control have unmuted everything .... > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur r...@kandalaya.org http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > -- Thanks & Regards, Gaurav Gehani _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
