asus m51sn LCD Brightness
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Bug Description
I have a laptop (asus m51sn with Nvidia GeForce 9500M GS)in dual boot system Vista / Ubuntu. When i get off Vista and restart system in Ubuntu 9.04, after 3-4 seconds from the start, the LCD brightness go down (dim), it's almost invisible. I can go up by Fn-F6, but the system doesn't remember this brightness, and the problem is the same the next time... I tried all the workarounds in Internet, but nothing works for this problem.
for example i tried this workaround (it didn't solve the problem):
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"1. Screen Brightness
The ambient light sensor is the cause of the dim screen, we’ll have to turn it off. To fix this we will have to create a shell script that will be run on boot up that will turn of the ambient light sensor.
A) Open Terminal (Menu->
sudo nano brightness
B) Now paste the following in the Terminal window:
#!/bin/sh
echo 0 > /sys/devices/
C) Hit Ctrl-O to save and then Ctrl-X to exit.
D) Now we will copy our new shell script to the appropriate directory, make it executable and add the following links by typing the following in Terminal:
sudo mv brightness /etc/init.d
and then
sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.
and then
sudo update-rc.d brightness defaults 90
E) Reboot, and you will have regained control of your brightness level."
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p.s.: Today (13 may 2009) i updated my Ubuntu 8.10 (it updated also kernel) and now i have the same problem now also in Ubuntu 8.10.
i don't know if it's important, but this is the result of gnome-power-
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gnome-power-
Distro version: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
Kernel version: 2.6.27-14-generic
g-p-m version: 2.24.0
HAL version: 0.5.11
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present: yes
Battery Information:
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.model = 'F3---24' (string)
battery.present = true (bool)
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.
battery.serial = '' (string)
battery.
battery.type = 'primary' (string)
battery.vendor = 'ASUSTEK' (string)
battery.
battery.
battery.
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
pippo 6823 0.0 0.3 24524 11288 ? S 18:39 0:00 /usr/lib/
giovanni 6900 0.0 0.4 27328 12616 ? Ss 18:39 0:00 gnome-power-manager
HAL Process Information:
111 6190 0.0 0.1 6584 4516 ? Ss 18:38 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
root 6191 0.0 0.0 3364 1124 ? S 18:38 0:00 \_ hald-runner
root 6210 0.0 0.0 3436 1052 ? S 18:38 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event1
root 6228 0.0 0.0 3448 1040 ? S 18:38 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/
111 6229 0.0 0.0 2296 940 ? S 18:38 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/
root 6242 0.0 0.0 3440 1060 ? S 18:38 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/scd0 (every 2 sec)
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also, trying to solve the problem, i "unceck" the options "enable" in gconf-editor --> apps --> gnome-power-manager --> ambient e backlight --> enable , but it doesn't solve the problem
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updates 15/5/09
i understood that maybe it could be the light sensor of my laptop to cause this problem. I tryed to give max permission rights to ls_level and ls_switch (sudo chmod 777......), and then in the terminal i made so:
echo 15 > /sys/devices/
bash: echo: errore di scrittura: Errore di I/O
echo 0 > /sys/devices/
bash: echo: errore di scrittura: Errore di I/O
U can see that those comands don't work (bash echo: write error: I/O error).
How can i solve???
in kernel.log i found it (i don't know if it's useful):
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 13.969654] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 13.992247] asus-laptop: Asus Laptop Support version 0.42
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 13.996203] asus-laptop: M51Sn model detected
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 13.999070] Registered led device: asus::mail
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.057525] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (on-line)
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.140346] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.336753] acpi device:20: registered as cooling_device2
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.336898] input: Video Bus as /devices/
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.357014] ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
pippo-laptop kernel: [ 14.381070] Linux agpgart interface v0.103
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