On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 04:14:49PM -0000, Olivier Bilodeau wrote: > What I meant is what happen if you do:
> sudo echo 15 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness > sudo echo 5 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness What happens is that you'll get a permissions failure, because the redirection (> /proc...) is handled by the parent shell, not by sudo. ;) You need: sudo -s echo 15 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness echo 5 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness exit -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- The slider brightness Applet has value inverted after the last update (2.6.27-11) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/311716 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
