Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:08, Ian Grody wrote: I had this issue, the Fn keys need to be mapped to setpci commands (do-able in xorg.conf somewhere) However; setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=xx Where xx is the desired brightness in HEX will allow you to adjust the hardware brightness factor. Hope it helps On Tue,

Re: [Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness (Tony Wood)

2011-04-06 Thread Tony Wood
On 05/04/11 19:04, kish wrote: On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:50 PM,mattham...@aol.com wrote: Any ideas on how I could control the display backlight please? I do it like this: sudo echo 3/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness pretty dumb but gets the job done. Thanks Kish See

[Hampshire] Netbook LCD brightness

2011-04-03 Thread Tony Wood
Dear Friends I installed Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 in a partition alongside the provided Windoze 7 in my new-last-week Samsung N145. It's a lot easier to get into the system on my PC running Ubuntu 10.10. As a relative newcomer to Linux I've been working at learning to use Terminal and thought