Package: kernel Severity: normal On the ul80vt / ul30vt asus laptop range, the backlight is not being set as it should be by gnome / most applications and the keyboard shortcut assigned by asus. If you look at http://forum.notebookreview.com/5665108-post1246.html One can edit some acpi files and use 'setpci' to change the brightness of the laptop's display.
e.g. setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=${brightness} This will allow you to use the laptop hotkeys to change the brightness level. However, this will not result in gnome gaining the capacity to 'autodim'. I have filed this as a kernel bug, but this might be an acpi bug. The issue exists on debian squeeze and debian lenny. It is also present on a 2.6.35.2 kernel. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.5 APT prefers stable APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.35.2 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org