Open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with your favorite editor. Somewhere in the middle of the file there should be a line that starts with "kernel /boot/"... This is the kernel line that I meant. There...
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Open the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with your favorite editor. Somewhere in the middle of the file there should be a line that starts with "kernel /boot/"... This is the kernel line that I meant. There...
"Good news, everyone..."
Playing with the options explained here http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt I finally managed to get it done!
I added the boot option acpi_osi= to my...
Does anyone of you know another way to single down the cause of this problem to a certain source? Or can I obtain the source of the acpi packages somewhere?
Is there anything else I could provide as info? Or a workaround that I haven't mentioned yet? That's the only issue left on my laptop.
This sounds unrelated as my brightness issue is something to do with ACPI, I assume. It didn't work before setting up frequency scaling at all and the brightness controls stop functioning in the very...
I filed a bug now containing all information I could get:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/279163
There is no such setting in my BIOS. It is quite crippled, can only change the time and the boot order but not much else...
The brightness_switch_enabled file has no effect on it.
Booting with...
Hi Xubcel, thanks for your comment on this. I was afraid I would be doing monologues forever... :)
I checked the website and it explains the same fix (but in a script) that didn't work on my...
Ok, I've collected lots of information that I hope someone can find useful. These are all "brightness" files on my system:
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
contains only "7"; could be...
BUMP.
It seems that this is nothing to do with Fn-keys after all, but with some other kind of problem. When directly writing a brightness value to the file, there is no change in the display's...
What information can I provide to help you help me?
Does anyone else face this problem?
ALOHA!
I've been reading every single entry on LCD backlight issues I could find and since nothing helped solving the problem I would like to ask for help again.
Using the brightness hotkeys of...