On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 08:12:52AM -0700, Andrew Stone wrote: > > I'm currently having trouble getting my f7 and 78 brightness keys to > work on my laptop. I would appreciate any help getting these to work, > or alternative methods for changing my screen brightness. I think > it must be configurable because it changes vastly when I am either > plugged in to AC or running on battery. > > A dmesg is below. > > [...] > vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82945GM Video" rev 0x03
If you have Xorg configured, you should be able to use the intel(4) driver with the xbacklight(1) utility.