backlight control not working on VAIO CW2C5E
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Ubuntu can't control backlight on my laptop. This happened also in 10.04 and 10.10 and I had to fix this using nvidia_bl driver (and it took quite a lot of time to set the correct parameters. Other function keys work properly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.32.0-2ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 11 18:40:30 2011
GnomeSessionIdl
GnomeSessionInh
GnomeSessionSus
MachineType: Sony Corporation VPCCW2C5E
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R0170Y7
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: VPCCW2C5E
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation