cannot change screen brightness on Sony VAIO VGN-FS285M
Bug #102294 reported by
Luis Alberto Pabón
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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hal (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: kde-guidance
The KDE applet for guidance-
That said, screen brightness adjustment in power profiles work when they are configured in powersaved config files (such as /etc/powersave/
This is a Sony VAIO VGN-FS285M (centrino), on Kubuntu Feisty (updated as of today).
PS: this very same behaviour existed in Edgy.
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I suspect that HAL does not have proper support for your laptop brightness settings.
Can you run guidance- power-manager from command line (terminal/console) and reproduce the problem and then provide output of the command?