Ubuntu 8.10 and 10.10 with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100

[inearlygaveup]

Can anyone help please I have an Aspire 5100 with ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 and have been happily running Ubuntu 8.10 until now when support has ended.
I continued with 8.10 because the graphics have been fine with my system.

I also have 10.10 installed and apart from the graphics, I would have no problem changing/upgrading.

The problem is the glare, after a while it is very hard to work on.

Is there anything I can do that's not to technical to reduce the glare.

[lukeiamyourfather]

What does the glare on the screen have to do with the version of Ubuntu on the machine?

[inearlygaveup]

The glare/extra bright whites on websites is from the screen when using 10.10.
I have no problem when I use 8.10.
I assume from the information I have seen regarding ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 that its something to do with this.
I have adjusted Contrast/Luminosity/Tried turning off effects but nothing really fixes it and find that I have to keep switching back to 8.10 for comfort.

[piquat]

Is it just too bright and you can't dim it down?

How about gddccontrol? It's in the repos.

[inearlygaveup]

Thanks for that tip - just tried it but got the following message
“The current monitor is in the database but does not support DDC/CI”
My PC’s a laptop.

[inearlygaveup]

OK I have solved the brightness/glare by installing Redshift.

Tried both Redshift and f.lux and Redshift seems to work best for me, so I have moved on to 10.04 - Lucid Lynx.