[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1257766] Re: can not reduce brightness on HP ZBook

2014-01-10 Thread ebutler
Oh, sorry, I missed out an important step, my $HOME/backlight directory is a link to /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight. You should either do the same or change $BACKLIGHT_DIR to the same thing, and then the brightness should get updated instantly when you run the script (no need for calling any

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1257766] Re: can not reduce brightness on HP ZBook

2014-01-08 Thread ebutler
I can confirm this problem still persists also. Martin -- I hacked this workaround, that maybe can work for you too. I mapped 'sudo /home/ebutler/bin/backlight.sh up' to Ctrl-F10 (my backlight is Fn-F10) using the keyboard shortcut options, and added ebutler ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /ho