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nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package

  1. Bug #95444
  2. Comment #187

Comment 187 for bug 95444

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Bem Jones-Bey (ajani) wrote : Re: [Bug 95444] Re: No Screen Backlight Control; Notebooks (Vaio, Macbook, HP/Compaq, Samsung, Zepto et al.) with Nvidia Geforce8/Geforce9/Quadro series graphics

On 01/26/2009 12:09 PM, Thunderbird wrote:
> Further I'd like some additional info. Could you some people try to
> run nvclock -D BEFORE the nvidia kernel module and X are loaded, so
> directly after logging into a VT? I'm interested in the line which
> contains 'NV_PDISPLAY_SOR0_REGS_BRIGHTNESS'. If it contains the proper
> value then it means the video bios is setting some interesting values
> from the video bios. Second I like a few copies of video bios from
> cards which work using nvclock's smartdimmer and from ones which
> aren't supported. The video bios is dumped by nvclock into ~/.nvclock.
>
 I've attached the entire output of nvclock -D (in single user mode) on
my HP 8510w, as well as the bios dump. I've also put them up here:
http://testing.pyen.com/~ajani/nvidia/