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SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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[solved] dell 1558 brightness

Well I've looked it up on the forums in a couple places and people had to use kernel patches to make it work.  I didn't want to revive an old thread so I thought I'd start this one.  The patch in question that was used is here:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kamal/i915_brightness/
My question is that It says ubuntu, is this still usable with Arch?

The wiki has a page on building custom kernels from source using ABS so that I can apply this patch... or at least I believe that is the way to do it.

Thanks for the help!

Last edited by SiegeMachine (2011-06-18 23:30:02)

SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: [solved] dell 1558 brightness

Well I found another post that mentioned the patch worked despite it being Ubuntu, so I have decided to try to build it.  However I have little to no experience patching.  I copied the kernel files from the abs tree to a temp build folder and downloaded the patches to the same folder.  When I use

patch -p1 < "patchfile-here"

it asks for the file to patch after posting

can't find file to patch at input line 21
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:

so I'm assuming I'm doing something wrong.  Are patches made to change things (in my case fix the brightness issue with dell 1558 laptops) for specific kernels and that this older patch wont work with the current kernel or is it just I'm typing the wrong thing/in the wrong folder?

sumski

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Registered: 2011-04-30

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Re: [solved] dell 1558 brightness

There's kernel26-kamal package in AUR

SiegeMachine

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Registered: 2009-03-26

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Re: [solved] dell 1558 brightness

I'll give that a shot, thanks.

SiegeMachine

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Re: [solved] dell 1558 brightness

Sweet it works!