Comment 1 for bug 641660

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cascagrossa (cascagrossa-cascao) wrote :

Same on a dell vostro 3500 kubuntu 10.04, nvidia 310M, proprietary driver (current) instaled Hardware Drivers Manager.

I can get function keys to work inserting <Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"> at <Device Section> of xorg.conf. Values in </proc/acpi/video/PEGP/LCD/brightness> also changes accordingly, but changing it manually, <echo -n 30 >/proc/acpi/video/PEGP/LCD/brightness> only changes screen brightness when i hit any brightness key.

KDE Power Manager applet is not able to control brihgtness.