Re-closing this. The people who reopened posters (a) had totally different hardware, (b) did not provide any actual info, and (c) didn't add themselves to cc.
If someone should still have issues regarding backlight, please file a full issue as instructed by http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Bugs/ -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/405387 Title: nouveau not supporting backlight Status in Accelerated Xorg driver for nVidia cards: Fix Released Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau I experience problems with backlight. There is no backlight information in /sys/class backlight nor /proc/acpi/video xbacklight is also not working ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Mon Jul 27 19:05:17 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 MachineType: Sony Corporation VGN-FZ21E NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.10~git+20090708+ef3a386-0ubuntu1 ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=0918e4be-9bb8-4304-8f19-1fd016c6837b ro initcall_debug nomodeset ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic RelatedPackageVersions: xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.5-1ubuntu1 libdrm2 2.4.11-1ubuntu1 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.0-0ubuntu1 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu1 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic x86_64 dmi.bios.date: 07/04/2007 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: R1120J7 dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A dmi.board.name: VAIO dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation dmi.board.version: N/A dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation dmi.chassis.version: N/A dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrR1120J7:bd07/04/2007:svnSonyCorporation:pnVGN-FZ21E:pvrC3LPXCR7:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A: dmi.product.name: VGN-FZ21E dmi.product.version: C3LPXCR7 dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation fglrx: Not loaded system: distro: Ubuntu architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-3-generic [lspci] 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G86 [GeForce 8400M GT] [10de:0426] (rev a1) Subsystem: Sony Corporation Device [104d:9005] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/405387/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
