I tried fedora 9 and indeed the brightness keys work, but not correctly! (No dim on idle etc). It worked on ubuntu this way during hardy's alpha's (stopped working somewhere around alpha 6/beta). For this to work correctly all brightness changes should be done by hal so dim on idle/battery can function correctly. In Fedora this did not work (not for me at least) just as in ubuntu.
The situation right now is as follows: - brightness keys are recognised by hal and the correct function in addon-dell-backlight is called -> correct - brightness is not changed hardwarematicly -> correct (or by a kernel driver that catches the keys or something like that) - the libsmbios call to change brightness does not seem to work -> fail (try the command line thingie). -- Brightness and dim on idle/battery do not work on Dell laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201433 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
