Impossible to change screen brightness on iMac
Bug #176648 reported by
Ludovico Fischer
This bug affects 5 people
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: hal
On a imac(white) Core2Duo, ATIX1600, there is no way, using tools included with the distribution, to change the intensity of the LCD backlight. One has to use a program by Nicolas Boichat called bl1.c (which by the way seems to have stopped working with the present state of 8.04-Hardy). This is annoying as the screen defaults to max brightness, which many find quite blinding. This problem seems to affect all models of Intel iMacs and Macbooks. I wonder if there is a solution at kernel level somewhere?
See also bug 457882, the same problem on a MacBook.
Changed in hal: | |
status: | In Progress → Incomplete |
Changed in hal (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
assignee: | nobody → Paolo Sammicheli (xdatap1) |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
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Please check if this has been fixed in Hardy now.