Hi folks! I am in exact the same situation after updating to the latest Ubuntu release 10.04.
Before that with 9.04 and 9.10 the mentioned work arounds worked fine. see: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AspireTimeline/Fixes Until now, I did not tried to change the BIOS. (Can anyone be so kind and point me to an howto?, But I am not sure, if it is a good idea to make a change there to fix a ubuntu bug) I have the Aspire 5810T. Best Regards mt. Am Montag, 28. Juni 2010 21:06 schrieb Gregor Müllegger: > Hi guys, > > I recently purchased a Acer TimelineX 1830tz. WLAN is working (but always > switched off after boot), Battery charging LED is working, also Compositing > is working out of the box. > > But I have problems to set the backlight brightness. I think its not a > problem of the FN+Arrow keys - its something driver related (I tried > xbacklight, tried setting the brightness in /sys/ directory, tried the > Helperscript posted in the Ubuntu Wiki). > > My first attempt fixing it was to set some boot options. But also > "acpi_backlight=vendor" [...] -- Dipl.-Math. Martin Tschierschke - Geschäftsführer smart dolphin GmbH - Große Bergstraße 219 - 22767 Hamburg Gerichtsstand: Hamburg - Handelsregister: HRB 79393 Geschäftsführer: Jörg Schwabenhausen, Martin Tschierschke [email protected] - Tel: +49(0)40-854098-0 - Fax: +49(0)40-854098-90 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
