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I just installed puppy linux but the screen is literally burning my eyes. The Fn+Brightness key on my laptp doesn't work. I tried to go to setup and change the gamma but it just make the colors darker, the screen itself keeps being extremly bright so I think it's due to the backlight.

How can I diminish the backlight or the thing that keeps the screen bright despite me lowering gamma ?

Edit: in fact when I'm in command prompt mode (GUI closed) the screen is still very bright. Is there a way to fix that too ?

Edit: I managed to add acpi_backlight=vendor in GRUB as you can find on the internet to fix this problem but this doesn't change anything. Pressing Fn+Arrow still doesn't work and changing the brightness file in acpi_video doesn't work either.

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Try this. See if /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/ exists. If it does

cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/max_brightness

gives the max allowed brightness, and you can set brightness thus (where X is a value 0-'max_brightness'):

echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
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  • Unfortunately this doesn't work, I change brightness to 2 (max brightness = 7), restart the GUI but it doesn't change anything
    – Wicelo
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 12:56
  • did the value you set definitely take? you could try this as alternative: tee /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness <<< 2. Have a look at more suggestions here.
    – gogoud
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 13:10
  • well when I restart GUI actual_brightness is set to 2
    – Wicelo
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 13:29
  • in fact it's not only the GUI but also the screen while in command prompt mode too.
    – Wicelo
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 13:35
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    oh dear. I think a solution, if there is one, will be quite hardware-specific, prob good idea to add details of your hardware (i.e. exact laptop model) in the question.
    – gogoud
    Commented Mar 16, 2015 at 13:59
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Have just tried echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness on my HP 6450b with Puppy 5.7.1 and it does the job fine.

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my speculation success, i use "echo 200 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness" where my max brightness on intel_backlight is 976. ACER 4741 Intel Display

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echo 300 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness

works for IGPs (Integrated Graphic Processors), like Intel chips.

echo X >/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

probably for external graphics cards.

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Go to Menu > Desktop > Redshift

There is a Screen Brightness Setting.

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on slacko or puppy linux use the tool gamma calibration tool in setup for screen -100 +100

setup/puppy setup / graphics screen open monitor gamma calibration

i had to do this when using a tv as a monitor to soften the brightness

but now got it just right , only probelm i had is the screen resolution with using a tv had to settle for 1040

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