I'm running the gutsy alpha, updated today (20070918), and still have issues
with the backlight.
The function keys increase/decrease the brightness as normal, but the Power
Manager Brightness Applet still can't control the brightness, and I don't see
the option to dim the screen after a certai
I apologise to you Eugenia, I meant to post about a work around while waiting
for a fix to be committed.
So if people are too eager to get the functionality (like I was), they have
some instructions to get it working (although it could break things for future
updates). For the rest of the crowd,
Sorry, but I use Ubuntu so I don't *have* to recompile stuff all the time. If I
wanted to still have the development tools installed, I would have stayed with
Arch Linux.
The Ubuntu guy who was responsible for this and my previous HAL bug report, has
handled the matter very poorly IMO.
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Thanks to Erik I have manage to make the LCD backlight of my Dell laptop
work. Check the bug report Bug #43572
(https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/43572)
Actually, you need to get the libsmbios source from Gutsy (as it
requires a version >= 0.13) and to recompile the Hal to get the
I have libsmbios installed and it still does not work. The problem is
not libsmbios, but the fact that Ubuntu uses an older version of HAL
that does not take into account libsmbios at all. I had asked to
backport the HAL changes to support DELL laptops (if they didn't want to
upgrade the whole HAL
Another bug (#94329) is open describing the issue of that ubuntu build
of hal lacks dell backlight support. The cause is probably that the
build machine hasn't got libsmbios installed.
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/92194
You received this bug notification beca
I also have a Dell laptop - Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2. The brightness
controls on the keyboard (Fn + Up & Down) work fine, but the brightness
applet does not. I would also like HAL compiled with --with-dell-
backlight if possible.
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
This is what I originally asked, to include libsmbios and have it
working with their HAL. Check the first comment. The guy rejected my
bug. What more should I do to make him understand that he needs to
backport code to his HAL?
And I can't just recompile HAL. As Tigrux said above, simply recompili
Eugenia, culprit is a very harsh word - perhaps *asking* for the
libsmbios stuff to be backported might have been a nicer way to ask for
a solution. If the Ubuntu guys don't want to backport, then you'll have
to build HAL from source yourself - this is all very new.
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BTW, my hardware buttons about brightness WORK (on both my laptops).
What doesn't work is the Brightness Gnome APPLET. And when I emailed the
applet author and looked at it he concluded that the culprit is your
HAL.
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
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Actually the problem is HAL. The Brightness author asked me to debug it
for him and he concluded that HAL is not built with --with-dell-
backlight option. If it was, the libsmbios package would have been
automatically included in Feisty's ISO. So I am not sure what separate
file I should file and w
Could you please reopen this bug?
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
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If backlight is not working in feisty, then please file a separate bug
report so we can find the root cause. On a recent test with a stack of
Dell laptops, we found that they all had working brightness controls
with Herd 5 (no tested were performed for earlier releases).
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HAL is not built with
The hal in feisty has built-in smbios support:
* probe-smbios.c : Probe system BIOS according to the SMBIOS/DMI
standard
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
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HAL is not built with libsmbios
https://launchpad.net/bugs/92194
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