With that new BIOS, I didn't need to. It just works out of the box with karmic and Fedora 12. Only thing that is still broken is that mousepad-disable key.
2009/11/27 Jim <[email protected]>: > Emiel, I hope this isn't a silly question, but did you still need nomodeset > and acpi_backlight=vendor as kernel boot parameteres? > > Jim > > On Thursday 26 November 2009 13:22:05 Emiel Kollof wrote: >> Maybe you should update your BIOS. I upgraded to 2.31 on my 5810T and >> all the backlight issues are gone with Ubuntu *and* Fedora 12. >> >> 2009/11/26 JimboJones <[email protected]>: >> > FWIW, I disabled all the powersaving "features" in KDE via the System >> > Settings module, and killed the KDE battery monitor in task manager and >> > just use gnome-power-manager. >> > >> > With gnome-power-manager the backlight keys work, the screen dims >> > automatically, etc. Of course, I've also got the nomodeset and >> > acpi_baclight=vendor as kernel boot params. I read on lesswatts.org that >> > gpm is always waking the CPU, but I don't have that issue on my machine. >> > >> > There is some backlight flickering sometimes. >> > 4810T, 1.10 BIOS, Fedora 12 beta. >> > >> > Jim >> > >> > On 11/16/2009 04:33 PM, Miguel Branco wrote: >> > >> > @Dan >> > Thanks for the reply. I'm using Ubuntu Karmic with kubuntu-desktop >> > installed on top. >> > I bricked my first timeline on a BIOS downgrade so I'm not feeling too >> > bold on trying an upgrade. My BIOS (for the 4810t) is 1.10. >> > >> > @Thomas >> > Add the following to the GRUB_CMD_LINUX_DEFAULT entry in >> > /etc/default/grub: nomodeset acpi_backlight=vendor >> > >> > and then run sudo update-grub on the terminal. >> > >> > This fixed it all in gnome for me and others. >> > >> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 23:13, Dan LeVasseur <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What version are you using? With my 4810tz BIOS 1.3 Kubuntu 9.10 the >> >> brightness keys worked out of the box and incremented levels 20 at a >> >> time. Adding the nomodeset.... allowed me to change increments by 10. >> >> >> >> Might be BIOS that fixed it. >> >> >> >> -Dan >> >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Miguel Branco <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello there, >> >>> I'm happy with my 4810T so far, I have no noise at all and almost >> >>> everything works. >> >>> However, while the 'nomodeset acpi_backlight=...' fix for the backlight >> >>> is perfect in Gnome, it doesn't work at all in KDE. >> >>> >> >>> The script fix works, but it's unpractical to input the password each >> >>> time you want to change the brightness. >> >>> I'm not even mentioning that you lose the option of using the built in >> >>> sliders. >> >>> >> >>> Does anyone know another option or hybrid way that works on KDE? I'd >> >>> even be happy if I could say setpci doesn't need sudo. >> >>> >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> Miguel >> >>> >> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> >>> Post to : [email protected] >> >>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> >>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> > Post to : [email protected] >> > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline >> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
