I just used the manager to update to 2.6.38-9-generic
#43+kamal~mjgbacklight4-Ubuntu and the brightness works much better.
The login panel remains dark. Once in your session, the amount of backligth
evolves contrary to what the popup display indicates and i've experienced
sudden changes of brightne
Hi again, same thing with Natty. It's like the PPA doesn't get installed. I
am probably missing something:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kamalmostafa/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight
$ sudo apt-get update
Is that it? I guess not!
(Thanks for the setpci command, it makes Natty functional for me through
That's it, on 10.10 I can see well but there's no reaction to hotkeys
(snapshots attached).
Going to try blind typing on 11.04, install Kamal's kernel and let you know.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Wolfgang Kufner
wrote:
> Things people use on black screens:
> external monitor
> blind typing o
Hi again, things are back to normal on 10.10 after a new reboot. Kamal's PPA
is still here but brightness won't vary with the Fn commands.
I'll try to install it on Natty as soon as I fetch a flashlight and let you
know what happens.
Thx
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Néstor wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi all, sorry for the news, but I just tried Kamal's PPA on 10.10 and after
reboot I got a totally black screen as a result (gulp!). I'm in the
failsafeX mode from the recovery mode right now. Hope to find a way to undo
the PPA.
Maybe I should've tried directly on 11.04? I'll try doing so despite
Just in case it helps, i also upgraded my Acer Aspire 5732Z to 11.04 from 10.10
and got the same dim, almost black screen. The first time i entered in recovery
mode, brightness was OK, but only that first time.
Rolling back to 10.10 I've realized that brightness control (Fn + left
|| right arrow
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