Samsung r560: can't adjust brightness of laptop screen

[DSchaefer]

I have a new Samsung r560 and the brigthness control isn't working at all. Not with hot-keys and not with gnome.
I don't know what information you'll need, but I'm willing to help.
My ubuntu version is the newest alpha

Regards
 Daniel

[Ian Weisser (ian-weisser)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately we can't fix it, because your description didn't include enough information.

Please follow the "How to file" procedure described at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingHal and attach the requested files here.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[chedim (d-chechotkin)]

Here they are. I'm tried to press Fn+Up, Fn+Down and Fn+F5 (turns backlight on/off).
Pls, help us :)

[Alexander Schaber (alexanderschaber)]

See: #291878 and #295251 .
Those Bugs describe similar Problems. As the Kernel Log already suggests, one can setup the keys with setkeycodes, for instance in /usr/share/hotkey-setup/samsung.hk .

But even though the Keys are then recognized, pressing a key such as Backlight + or Backlight - the kernel, X11 or whatever thinks one keeps pressing/releasing that button for ever.

Possibly an adapted kernel patch like the one supplied there will work for the R560 as well.

Greetings
 Alexander

[Evgeniy (goujat)]

Fn+ hotkeys does not work in Jaunty Beta, it's OK.

Brightness regulation does work using Brightess Panel Applet ONLY when using default video driver (I don't know what one).

When choosing to enable NVidia proprietary driver, Brightness applet does not work anymore.

Plz fix it. I may help.

[dino99 (9d9)]

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/hal/