[YLUG] screen brightness

[nigel white]

Spot on Paul, that did it. It was Fn + up arrow. Simple as that.

Many thanks for all the suggestions.

Nigel
All the gear, and no idea.




On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 10:01 +0000, Paul Gibbs wrote:
> nigel white wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > My laptop screen has gone dim. Not very dim, but too dim for comfortable
> > viewing.
> >
> >   
> Possibly a silly question but have you tried the brightness function 
> keys. I've not seen a laptop yet that doesn't have these and they all 
> seem to override the OS. I'm not sure where the keys are on a DELL but 
> Fn + [brighntess logo]. (Probably Fn is next to left CTRL and the 
> brightness icon is probably in blue on the F-keys.
> 
> Paul.<><
> 
> 
> > I have Dell Inspiron 6400. ATI Mobility Radeon X1300.
> >
> > I looked in the forums and did -
> >
> > sudo gconf-editor
> > apps -> gnome-power-manager -> blacklight -> disable
> >
> > I also looked in the forums and did -
> >
> > apt-get install xbacklight
> > xbacklight -set 100
> >
> > >From the latter I got "No outputs have backlight property"
> >
> > Now I'm completely stuck.
> >
> > Do you have any suggestions?
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Nigel
> >
> >
> >
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