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  1. Bug #43572
  2. Comment #28

Comment 28 for bug 43572

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In , Andrew-conkling (andrew-conkling) wrote :

(In reply to comment #17)
> The SMBIOS binary works (or did last time I tested it) but *this* bug isn't
> fixed at all. Now that SMBIOS seems to work, gluing it to Dell's brightness keys
> may result in working solution, but that glue hasn't yet been written.
>
> Apologies if I misinterpreted you.

Nope, it was I. That makes sense now. :) I'm really not sure what this "glue"
would look like (I'm only really interested in the gnome-power-manager sexiness
that can come from this), but is there anything I can do to help?

FWIW, I'm using a Dell Inspiron 6000.