Arch Linux

robbie

Member

Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 1

Vaio FW brightness

This is my first post on the Arch Linux forums, so first of all hello!! Anyways I've been running ubuntu and various other beginners' distros for a little over a year now, so I decided to take the plunge and try to get to grips with arch linux, which I consider to be a more advanced distro. So I've followed the beginners' guide and I have it all set up nice and I have it running with gnome but I have one dealbreaker problem, I have no control over screen brightness, it's just set to full all the time. How can I fix this? Not really sure of any more info I should post but I'll tell you anything you need to know.

P.S I'm running a vaio FW21E if it matters with an HD3470 graphics card

kjon

Member

From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: Vaio FW brightness

What DE are you using? Sometimes, when your fn keys aren't mapped correctly you still can set the proper brigthness by using a proper inserted applet on your taskbar (read, brightness applet). If this doesn't work, ensure you've installed xorg-server-utils and try to use the xbacklight program.

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litemotiv

Forum Fellow

Registered: 2008-08-01

Posts: 5,026

Re: Vaio FW brightness

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77178

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