Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-05 Thread matthammal
>Dear Friends >I installed Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 in a partition alongside the provided >Windoze 7 in my new-last-week Samsung N145. >It's a lot easier to get into the system on my PC running Ubuntu 10.10. >As a relative newcomer to Linux I've been working at learning to use >Terminal and thought

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-05 Thread kish
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, wrote: >>Any ideas on how I could control the display backlight please? I do it like this: sudo echo 3 >/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness pretty dumb but gets the job done. -- Kish --- Esse Quam Videri -- Please post to: Hamp

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-05 Thread Ian Grody
I had this issue, the Fn keys need to be mapped to setpci commands (do-able in xorg.conf somewhere) However; "setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=xx" Where xx is the desired brightness in HEX will allow you to adjust the hardware brightness factor. Hope it helps On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 06:20 -0400, mattham..

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:08, Ian Grody wrote: I had this issue, the Fn keys need to be mapped to setpci commands (do-able in xorg.conf somewhere) However; "setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=xx" Where xx is the desired brightness in HEX will allow you to adjust the hardware brightness factor. Hope it helps On Tue

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:04, kish wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM, wrote: Any ideas on how I could control the display backlight please? I do it like this: sudo echo 3>/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness pretty dumb but gets the job done. Thanks Kish See you at Red Hat meet