I just used the manager to update to 2.6.38-9-generic
#43+kamal~mjgbacklight4-Ubuntu and the brightness works much better.
The login panel remains dark. Once in your session, the amount of backligth
evolves contrary to what the popup display indicates and i've experienced
sudden changes of brightne
Hi again, same thing with Natty. It's like the PPA doesn't get installed. I
am probably missing something:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kamalmostafa/linux-kamal-mjgbacklight
$ sudo apt-get update
Is that it? I guess not!
(Thanks for the setpci command, it makes Natty functional for me through
That's it, on 10.10 I can see well but there's no reaction to hotkeys
(snapshots attached).
Going to try blind typing on 11.04, install Kamal's kernel and let you know.
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Wolfgang Kufner
wrote:
> Things people use on black screens:
> external monitor
> blind typing o
Things people use on black screens:
external monitor
blind typing of sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 F4.B=a1 (a1 is just an example
hex value for the brightness) on a terminal window called up with
ctrl+alt+T
flashlight
just plain hard staring under certain lighting conditions
So now it boots up with a bri
Hi again, things are back to normal on 10.10 after a new reboot. Kamal's PPA
is still here but brightness won't vary with the Fn commands.
I'll try to install it on Natty as soon as I fetch a flashlight and let you
know what happens.
Thx
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:25 PM, Néstor wrote:
> Hi all,
Hi all, sorry for the news, but I just tried Kamal's PPA on 10.10 and after
reboot I got a totally black screen as a result (gulp!). I'm in the
failsafeX mode from the recovery mode right now. Hope to find a way to undo
the PPA.
Maybe I should've tried directly on 11.04? I'll try doing so despite
Can you confirm (e.g. with uname -a on a terminal) that you really
booted into the patched kernel 2.6.38-9.43+kamal~mjgbacklight4. If you
did not select the kernel at boot time (hold shift to get a grub menu
to select) you might have booted into the 2.6.39 kernel from the
previous test.
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