[Bug 568611] Re: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558

2012-08-14 Thread Joe Maillard
naveen, you need to manually set the boot parameter 'acpi_backlight=vendor' if you use grub as your boot manager, edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg and add the parameter to the end of the appropriate line that begins with 'linux'. be sure to do this whenever you get kernel updates too. -- You received

[Bug 568611] Re: Screen brightness control fails on Dell Studio 1558

2011-08-16 Thread Joe Maillard
I have a fresh install on natty on my Dell Studio 1558, The brightness keys do NOT work with the last PPA update with kernel 2.6.38-11. If I boot with the previous kernel the brightness keys work as expected. 2.6.38-10-generic-pae #46+kamal~mjgbacklight4-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 15 03:10:48 UTC 2011 i68