Just patched a vanilla 2.6.38 kernel on dell laptop XPS 15 running Slackware 13.37. The intel_brightness interface works great! Just to let it be used within kde I've written two trivial utilities:
brightness_workaround.pl ------------------------------------ #!/usr/bin/perl open(ACTUAL, "/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/actual_brightness"); $ag = <ACTUAL>; close(ACTUAL); $step = ($ARGV[1]) ? $ARGV[1] : 400; $ag += ($ARGV[0] eq '-') ? -$step : $step; system("/bin/echo $ag >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness"); ------------------------------------ brightness_workaround_wrapper (setuid'ed) ------------------------------------ #include <unistd.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { setuid(0); execv("/usr/local/bin/brightness_workaround", argv); } ------------------------------------ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/568611 Title: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs