Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > thanks, i solved this problem without emerging the nvclock package. i > guess it is a group and permission issue. i have my accounts joined > these groups: disk wheel audio cdrom video usb users plugdev, and i > can change the lcd brightness with t

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Damian wrote: > I don't know if you have an nvidia card. I had the same problem: I was > only able to change the brightness from a text console. I solved the > problem by installing nvclock (now I no longer need sunglases). > > I hope that helps. > > thanks, i so

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: >> hi, >> >> my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after >> some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can >> use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM, wrote: > > Hi, > > Whats the name of the tool and what use flags are set? > It's most likely that you are going to need to re-emerge it, or some > component that it depends upon if it is part of gnome or kde, etc. > i have acpi, hal, apm, pmu, nvidia, lm_sensors,

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-05 Thread roundyz
Xi Shen wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Xi Shen wrote: >> > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, ?? wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do: >> >> ??cat ??/proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness >> > >> echo "20"> /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness can

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-04 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Xi Shen wrote: > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM,   wrote: >> Hi, >> fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do: >>  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness > echo "20"> /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness can change the brightness of my lcd. but draggi

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, wrote: > Hi, > fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do: >  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness i found a similar file at /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness. i think they are the same :) > > should give something like > > levels:  13 25 38 50

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-28 Thread roundyz
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: >> Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: >> > hi, >> > >> > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after >> > some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can >> > use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: > hi, > > my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after > some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can > use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but > when i tried to change the lcd br

[gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but when i tried to change the lcd brightness by dragging the handle on the 'power management