Comment 11 for bug 38531
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| Aaron Whitehouse (aaron-whitehouse) wrote | #11 |
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Andrew: I also do not have this working, but it is because of my laptop. If you follow the link to the Gnome bug on the right, you will see that some laptops do not identify themselves as supporting brightness changes. It also steps through finding that out.
For my laptop (a Dell), it doesn't use ACPI to do brightness stuff and instead does it in BIOS. This means that HAL is going to have to write a module to talk to my brightness controls in the BIOS. On other laptops, I understand that the issue would be ACPI not working correctly - it will depend on the laptop.
If I were you, I would go through the steps on the linked bug report and file a support request so that someone can help you isolate it down to a bug/feature request.
As I say, I don't have a laptop that this works on, so that is why I haven't been able to change its status. If this is working for someone in Edgy, that is great news :).