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Sscreen very dim after resume from suspend

I'm unable to resume from 'Suspend to RAM'. It resumes properly, albeit with a very very dim screen (so dim I can barely make out the desktop). Trying to brighten the screen using the Fn keys doesn't ...
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Acpid and Startup Brightness

On Arch Linux on my laptop, I have acpid control the brightness level based on AC plug events. Plugging in gives me max brightness and running on battery sets it at the minimum. My problem is that ...
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Problem with keyboard backlight in Asus N56VZ. Suspected asus-wmi problem

I use Ubuntu mainline kernel 3.8.x and 3.9.RCx on Linux Mint 14. On those kernels keyboard backlight is not working very consistently. Sometimes kernel boots and keyboard brightness is available. ...
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Brightness control Fedora 18

I'm using Fedora 18 and i've intel GPU, using intel_backlight to control the brightness, Is there any way i can set the brightness keys to work??
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The brightness on my Lenovo SL510 only moves between 100% and 0%?

I have a Lenovo SL510 laptop running Linux Mint Debian Edition (based on Debian Testing) using the Cinnamon DE, and the brightness appears to only have two settings: 100% and 0%. If I use the ...
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Setting default brightness level on startup for all run levels

Laptop: Toshiba R630 OS: Linux Mint 14 Cinnamon I have seen various articles (http://askubuntu.com/questions/151651/brightness-is-reset-to-maximum-on-every-restart) on adjusting brightness. But my ...
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Cannot change brightness after standby or logout

Laptop: Toshiba R630 http://www.linlap.com/toshiba_portege_r700-r705 OS: Mint 14, Cinnamon $ lspci | grep -i vGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated ...
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Can not change brightness on Toshiba P855 - tried every distro already

I'm trying to use Linux on a Toshiba P855 laptop. And I have one big problem: the screen brightness can't be changed, and stays at maximum. Tried different distros, also tried many boot options in ...
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How to change LCD intensivity/brightness

How to change brightness of LCD want image look deemed and soft the xrandr --output LVDS1 --gamma 0.8:0.8:1.1 change only gamma but not the brightness of image. I have no option --brightness for ...
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Issue with laptop screen when opening lid

I use Archlinux, with acpid to configure the laptop lid behavior rather than systemd. Currently, I have it set so vbetool sets dpms off when the lid is closed, and reopening the lid sets it back on. ...
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How to measure light?

I've got a Dell Latitude E6410 notebook which changes lcd light intensity in response to ambient light levels, so it has to have some photocell. How can I access the data from this photocell? I tried ...
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Script with root permission [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Redirecting stdout to a file you don't have write permission on I am creating a script to change the brightness of my laptop. I discovered that I can do this using ...
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How to get brightness keys working inside openbox session?

I'm using Openbox window manager without DE. I'd like to get fn + [brightness up/down icon] working like it is in GNOME/KDE, but i'm looking for lightweight solution without gnome-power-manager and ...