[Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-14 Thread Aniyan Rajan
Hello, I'm using Tisquel Slaine in my laptop computer. How can I disable the screen dim when on battery ? I have tried many methods and not working. I have commented the following line in the file /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode. But it is not working. true) laptop_mode_battery ;; > So

[Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-20 Thread noisysoul666
Hi, I've used Ubuntu and its derivatives for a couple of years and Trisquel seduces me so badly, but I just cannot increase or decrease the brightness. I'm running Trisquel 6 on a usb stick (my HD contains eOS, at least until I can make Trisquel work properly) and even though I've installed d

[Trisquel-users] Brightness issues

2012-01-04 Thread lluvia_lists
It comes from here: https://trisquel.info/es/forum/plymouth-corruption The point is that cannot be adjusted brightness without doing a trick: pulling out firstly the power wire. The laptop used is this one (trisquel 5.0): http://www.h-node.com/notebooks/view/en/30/SA50-110/2/1/TOSHIBA/undef/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-14 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Does your hardware (BIOS + video card) allow controlling brightness by software? Try the brightness applet, does it work? On my laptop this is not possible at all. The laptop remembers itself the brightness levels, either with or without battery, so in practice, it's likely that every time

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-15 Thread Aniyan Rajan
> > Does your hardware (BIOS + video card) allow controlling brightness by > software? Try the brightness applet, does it work? > > I'm able to control the brightness. But that is not something that I want to achieve. I want to disable the screen dimming (brightness reducing) feature, when the lapt

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-15 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Try gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power idle-dim-battery "false" and if it works you'll want to test whether that survives a restart.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-15 Thread Aniyan Rajan
> Try > > gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.**plugins.power idle-dim-battery > "false" > > and if it works you'll want to test whether that survives a restart. > I tried this and got the following error GLib-GIO-ERROR **: Settings schema 'org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power' is not inst

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-15 Thread Aniyan Rajan
I have installed gnome-settings-daemon and tried again. Still showing the same error. Is there any other way to do this? Like editing a settings file ? Thanks, On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Aniyan Rajan wrote: > > Try >> >> gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.**plugins.power idle-dim-ba

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-15 Thread mikko . viinamaki
Ah, I forgot you said you're on Slaine, sorry. You need to run gconf-editor (from gconf-editor package) and search for for 'dim'. Then toggle the relevant key's value from true to false.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-16 Thread Aniyan Rajan
> Ah, I forgot you said you're on Slaine, sorry. You need to run > gconf-editor (from gconf-editor package) and search for for 'dim'. Then > toggle the relevant key's value from true to false. > Can you tell me a command line way of doing it, as I'm in a chroot environment ? Thanks

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-16 Thread mikko . viinamaki
I believe it's gconftool --set --type bool /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/idle_dim_battery false

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2012-05-16 Thread Aniyan Rajan
I ran the following command and made the gconftool working as per https://bugs.launchpad.net/qbzr/+bug/694279 #unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS But still the brightness changes, immediately when the AC is turned off. Also I found that the value of idle_dim_battery is not changed in the file /usr/s

[Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread hbb2
I have an Acer ASPIRE M5 481T and can't adjust the screen brightness. It came with windows 8 pre-installed which I removed. I used xbacklight and got "No outputs have backlight property" Tried "setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX" without success. Also changed the bootloader parameters with "acpi_back

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-20 Thread noisysoul666
oh, I've been such a fool, I forgot to mention I'm running it on a Samsung R430 laptop (I used to use ppa voria's drivers). thx

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-20 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had another Samsung, different problem, but similar problem. I remember trying some other value for acpi_vendor at boot. Check this: http://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Samsung/Samsung%20N150 Cheers, Fabian - -- Fabián Rodríguez http://f

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-20 Thread migatheotaku
Please be careful installing drivers or a kernel from a different source. Most third-party drivers are proprietary (non-free) software and most versions of the Linux kernel have non-free components in them as well. It looks like you can use nvidia-bl-dkms, which looks to be free software (G

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-20 Thread joseph . e . dickson
Assuming you just need to control the LCD or LED brightness try the package xbacklight and just manually set up the function keys in your keyboard settings. http://linux.die.net/man/1/xbacklight

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-22 Thread noisysoul666
Guys, I tried your solutions but none of them worked :/ I used the usb stick on a older Toshiba laptop and Trisquel runs pretty well (Satellite from 2006-2007, brightness, audio and wifi working out of the box)... I don't know what to do, I really would like to switch to Trisquel, but I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-23 Thread mikko . viinamaki
What kind of a GPU does that have? lspci|grep VGA Perhaps you can change it via a file, one of these find /sys -iname brightness If you get multiple files, you can try to relate them to the devices with lspci by looking at the address.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-23 Thread mampir
Since 6.0 I also have problems with setting the brightness. Specifically, on a computer with an Nvidia GPU. The functions buttons do nothing, only show an indicator of changing, but the brightness doesn't actually change. I work around this by setting the brightness from a file in the /sys

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-23 Thread gustavo_cm
One can manipulate the hardware directly: $ sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX, where 'XX' is an hexadecimal value, from '00' to 'ff'. '00' will virtually shut down your screen, 'ff' could possibly burn it :-) Besides, such "manipulation" can be a not-so-good idea... you could change other parame

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-24 Thread pngwen
I have a samsung S10 notebook which has similar behavior. Part of the problem is that it has 2 backlight devices, and the intel one is the one that actually controls the laptop. The other problem is that it has extermely fine control. I can set brightness between 0 and 12000! I've found t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-24 Thread pngwen
When you're right right you're right. Here's a version with GPL applied. The reason I didn't have it on there before was it was written as quick fix for my one machine. I guess now that I've handed it out, the license becomes important. The irony is, the GPL is longer than the software :-D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-30 Thread noisysoul666
Dear pngwen, the terminal emulator keeps showing me errors :/ I couldn't make it work, maybe it doesn't do with my laptop, but anyway, thank you so much. Guys, I still cannot make it work :/ thanks anyway, I guess I won't be able to switch to Trisquel until I get a new laptop (probably in 201

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

2013-03-30 Thread noisysoul666
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Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness

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[Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-29 Thread davidecaramori
Hello, I need some help about brightness on my laptop Lenovo 110 series. I've installed Trisquel 7 and updated it, but when I move the brightness bar nothing happens. It' doesn't go down but it's blocked at the maximum level of brighteness. I tried various methods, like changing the /etc/defa

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness issues

2012-01-05 Thread mikko . viinamaki
With some video cards it is possible to set brightness via a file named brightness below /sys It contains a number 0-100

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness issues

2012-01-07 Thread mornealberts
Daniel, could you do some tests and report here? Do sudo showkey to see what keypresses are being generated when you press Fn+Brightness. Do that for the first laptop both before and after pulling out the power. In other words, both when the buttons are doing nothing and when they work. I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness issues

2012-01-07 Thread lluvia_lists
At any case, the result is always the same: keycode 225 press keycode 225 release or keycode 224 press keycode 224 release depending if your are lowing or increasing the brightness.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread blackomegarey
On Sun, 17 Nov 2013 11:06:43 +0100 (CET) x@x wrote: > I have an Acer ASPIRE M5 481T and can't adjust the screen brightness. > It came with windows 8 pre-installed which I removed. > > I used xbacklight and got "No outputs have backlight property" > > Tried "setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=XX" without su

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-17 Thread mattij . lammi
You can also try this which worked with my Asus Eee PC 1005PE: Modify your /etc/default/grub configuration file to include acpi_osi=Linux parameter on the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line and reboot. So, if it looks like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" Make it look like this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-18 Thread hbb2
Hi blackomegarey and lammi87, thank you for your time. I installed the linux-libre kernel and put the acpi_osi=Linux parameter on grub and didn't solve the problem. I've just registered my laptop at h-node.org

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-18 Thread mattij . lammi
Sorry to hear the brightness problem is still bothering you. Try to search a similar laptop models from h-node and see if they have any entries about similar problem. This problem might have been solved already. Anyway, thanks a lot for contributing to h-node!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-18 Thread mattij . lammi
Just found this on h-node: "Append acpi_backlight=vendor to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Then run sudo update-grub." Basically, try adding "acpi_backlight=vendor" to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT this time. This advice was found on Aspire V5-471's entry details. This model has been commer

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-18 Thread hbb2
Hey lammi87, you were right about my bios being not free, I corrected it. I was in a rush and filled the form really quickly, also forgot to check if I was logged in. I already tried appending acpi_backlight=vendor but it didn't work. I also can't run 3D acceleration(can't run compiz, also

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-19 Thread mattij . lammi
Thanks for your additions! Regarding your screen brightness problem, I'm almost out of ideas. However, I found this on Arch user foorums (link: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backlight#Backlight_utilities): "All methods expose themselves to the user by /sys/class/brightness. And xra

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness control

2013-11-20 Thread catfishagain
I had this same problem. After saving the grub text did you do : sudo update-grub?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-29 Thread enduzzer
An older thread on a similar issue. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/toutatis-brightness-control#comment-57107

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-30 Thread davidecaramori
I tried to write echo 60 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness but it says "permission denied". I have an intel graphic HD 520, I tried also the others solutions on the forum but nothings work. Can someone help me? If my brightness doesn't go down I can't use the laptop

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-30 Thread enduzzer
Try this. echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness Where 'x' is a number (try 10 or something).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-30 Thread davidecaramori
I've installed the newest linux libre kernel but nothing changed

Re: [Trisquel-users] Brightness on Lenovo

2017-06-30 Thread svhaab
https://itsfoss.com/fix-brightness-ubuntu-1310/ On an ubuntu notebook I got brightness to work using the instructions.