Comment 38 for bug 43572

(In reply to comment #27)
> (In reply to comment #26)
> > I have backported my patch and built some ubuntu deb packages which you can try
> > out if you are feeling brave:
> > http://home.student.uu.se/e/eran8655/filer/hald/
> >
> > You need to be running Feisty, libsmbios >=0.12 installed and have the dcdbas
> > kernel module loaded.
>
> Thanks for your packages. I tried using dellLcdBrightness (as mentioned in
> comment #2), but hal said, "I'm sorry. I cannot do that, Dave." Well... in so
> many words, anyway:
>
> "Could not instantiate SMBIOS table."
>
> I'm running the current packages (I installed 3 over my existing installed
> packages), I installed libsmbios[1,-bin,xml1], version 0.12.1-3, and made sure
> lsmod showed dcdbas as running.
>
> I'm assuming this isn't related, but I could find very little online about this.
> Anyway, let me know if I can test this awesomeness in any other way.

Could you please attach an output of lshal on your machine when my packages are
installed and dcdbas i loaded?

dellLcdBrightness needs to be executed as root to work.