Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Damian
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Frank Steinmetzger war...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Damian damian.o...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know if you have an nvidia card. I had the same problem: I was only able to change the brightness from a text console. I solved the problem by installing nvclock (now I no longer need sunglases). I hope that helps.

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-10 Thread Xi Shen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: thanks, i solved this problem without emerging the nvclock package. i guess it is a group and permission issue. i have my accounts joined these groups: disk wheel audio cdrom video usb users plugdev, and i can change

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-09 Thread Xi Shen
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:33 PM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, Whats the name of the tool and what use flags are set? It's most likely that you are going to need to re-emerge it, or some component that it depends upon if it is part of gnome or kde, etc. i have acpi, hal, apm, pmu, nvidia,

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-05 Thread roundyz
Xi Shen wrote: On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, ??roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do: ??cat ??/proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness echo 20

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-04 Thread Xi Shen
On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM,  roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do:  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness echo 20 /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness can change

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-03-02 Thread Xi Shen
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:32 PM, roun...@hotmail.ru wrote: Hi, fisrt see if proc and your kernel has it right, do:  cat  /proc/acpi/video/GFX0/DD02/brightness i found a similar file at /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness. i think they are the same :) should give something like levels:  

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-28 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but when i tried to change the lcd

Re: [gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-28 Thread roundyz
Frank Steinmetzger wrote: Am Sonntag 28 Februar 2010 schrieb Xi Shen: hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but when

[gentoo-user] power management cannot change LCD brightness

2010-02-27 Thread Xi Shen
hi, my system is gentoo amd64, kde 4.3. my laptop is thinkpad t61. after some configure in the kernel, and reboot with the new kernel, i can use the Fn+Home, and Fn+End to change the brightness of my lcd. but when i tried to change the lcd brightness by dragging the handle on the 'power