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Dotslash

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[SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

Does anyone else have a problem with nvidia 304.32-1 brightness problem in games like tremulous, quake 4, and others?
The problem is that I can't adjust the brightness its stuck and in tremulous it's too low.
I'm using 64bit version of arch and have a nvidia geforce gtx 460 768mb.
I ended up downgrading nvidia, nvidia-utils, and lib32-nvidia-utils to 302.17 this version doesn't have this problem.

Last edited by Dotslash (2012-08-28 14:27:58)

PReP

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

I saw that my brightness-settings was messed up, checked nvidia-settings,
it said that the brightness-config variable or such was wrong.

I suppose they changed some format/syntax in the config-files,
so i re-made my colour-settings, and re-saved it with nvidia-settings again,

and now it works again, loaded with 'nvidia-settings --load-config-only'

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syms

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

yes same problem here, i posted thread in nvnews:
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=187656
nvidia started releasing shitty broken drivers lately...

syms

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

can anyone test if its fixed in 304.37?

Dotslash

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

Its not fixed in 304.37-1.

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

This is odd, since it works for me.
all i recognized was that the nvidia-settings, told me of a variable-mismatch,
but it saved over the new brighness variable when re-set in the desktop-colour-tab.

Perhaps try backing up/moving the .nvidia-settings.rc,
and redo the settings with nvidia-settings to get a new - fresh - one.

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karabaja4

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

Same problem here with brightness with Openarena, deleting .nvidia-settings.rc didn't help.

syms

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

can anyone test if this fixes the issue? from nvnews:

See:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=142578
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43168#c15

I use in bootloader: acpi_backlight=legacy

karabaja4

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

nvidia 304.43 fixes this for me.

Dotslash

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Re: [SOLVED] nvidia 304.32-1 brightness

Hurray for 304.43