[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2017-11-22 Thread Dennis
Dear Sirs! I am completely newbie in Linux and in Linux Mint in particular. In my case adding Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" clause in xorg.conf did not change anything in brightness. uname -a Linux Dell-XPS-L702X 4.10.0-38-generic #42~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Oct 10 16:32:20

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-11-23 Thread Bjarne Kristensen
I have a DELL XPS L702X laptop with the nVidia GTX 555M 3GB RAM with the 120Hz 3D Screen. I use Ubuntu 12.10 32-bit with the Experimental NVIDIA binary Xorg driver from nvidia-experimental-310(proprietary). Thanks to all the comments, I got my Fn+F4/F5 brightness working aswell. Though I did not

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-11-05 Thread Daniel Woodworth
I have fixed this by changing my xorg.conf file from this: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Option "NoLogo""True" EndSection to this: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Option "NoLogo""True" EndSection Section "Sc

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-08-11 Thread Justin Crossley
Why does my xorg.conf file look like the following and not like Hemantkumar Gaswami's xorg.conf file? This is what I have: Section "Device" Identifier "Default Device" Option "NoLogo""True" EndSection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-08-04 Thread Justin Crossley
For the non-tecnically minded could someone please explain exactly what to type or do to: "add the following to xorg.conf: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" I have no idea how to add this to the xorg.conf file. This bug is extremely irritating. When the laptop enters power sav

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-06-02 Thread Hemantkumar Goswami
I can also confirm that the suggestion posted by "Pierre Chifflier" works. Though myself not being a computer geek I had problems implementing it. Below is the example of how it looks on my xorg.conf file and this works for me. Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Devi

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2012-04-19 Thread Eduard Ereza Martínez
I can confirm that this still happens on 12.04 LTS. Adding the line to xorg.conf as suggested by Pierre Chifflier makes it work correctly. I'm using proprietary drivers too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-man

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2011-09-09 Thread Timo
The solution from Pierre Chifflier appears to work on Ubuntu 11.04 with the proprietary nvidia drivers too. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/762670 Title: La

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2011-09-08 Thread Pierre Chifflier
Additional note to my previous comment: this is on a Debian Unstable, with proprietary nvidia module (280.13-4). Not sure if this can work with nouveau. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu. https:

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 762670] Re: Laptop brightness on Dell XPS not controllable

2011-09-08 Thread Pierre Chifflier
I can confirm the problem on a Dell XPS l702x with 3D NVidia GT 555m I have solved the problem here by adding the following to xorg.conf: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" Hope this helps, Pierre -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Deskto