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jelly

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Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 711

Brightness problem HP8510W [solved]

Hi,

I just bought a new laptop and most of the key elements like wireless work with reading howto's but my brightness isn't working i can't control with the gnome-brightness applet i have searched on google for this problem but haven't yet found any results. My laptop has got a nvidia quadro graphics card. Does anyone know how i can add support for brightness control for this laptop?? I haven't found something on the wiki, i use the latest kernel version + gnome.
I also can't set my brightness with this command:  xbacklight -set 50

Well i found out that there is a terminal command:
echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness
but i don't have a VGA i have got 

ls /proc/acpi/video/C14B/:
C160  C164  C165  C166    C167  DOS  POST  POST_info  ROM  info

And every C1** has a brightness .. tihing:/ and when i open a brightness file i read the mesage not supported, so i think i don't have any luck with this laptop

Last edited by jelly (2009-02-25 16:15:43)

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jelly

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 711

Re: Brightness problem HP8510W [solved]

My backlight works using nvclock

 nvclock -S 100

thanks nvclock developpers!!

Last edited by jelly (2009-02-25 16:15:18)

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