[Bug 1545264] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-03-01 Thread Kevin Leeds
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1545266 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545266 ** Description changed: - f.lux also has no effect. - also when i try to do - sudo echo 50 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness - then it says 'bash: brightness: permission denied'. + If I go to

[Bug 1545266] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-03-01 Thread Kevin Leeds
What is an LSB module? ** Description changed: Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS, seems to be fully updated. The problem is: When I go to System Settings -> Brightness & Lock, the slider has no effect. I can decrease the brightness slider to any level and the actual brightness of the monitors app

[Bug 1545264] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-13 Thread Kevin Leeds
ok, it is not ubuntu-docs. apparently an errant keystroke enabled me to submit the bug before it was correct in any way. I'll try again (how do I delete it? edit it? I'm the one who tried to make it! sorry!!) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which

[Bug 1545264] [NEW] screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-13 Thread Kevin Leeds
Public bug reported: f.lux also has no effect. also when i try to do sudo echo 50 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness then it says 'bash: brightness: permission denied'. Trusty Tahr 14.04 updated to current ** Affects: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status:

[Bug 1545264] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-13 Thread Kevin Leeds
How do I delete this stupid erroneous mistaken typo bug report ** Changed in: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Converted to question: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+question/285285 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 1545266] [NEW] screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-13 Thread Kevin Leeds
Public bug reported: Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS, seems to be fully updated f.lux also has no effect. Also when i try to do sudo echo 50 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness then it says 'bash: brightness: permission denied'. (From this page: http://pastebin.com/HzzHrS2g). product: OptiPlex

[Bug 1545264] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
I am not sure whether it should really be a question, or a bug. I have found the little pencil, so that is progress. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545264 Title: screen brightness s

[Bug 1545266] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
The steps outlined in the official documentation are working fine - I have set up the two monitors, and both are usable in many ways. But I can not find a way to use software to adjust the brightness of them. I had another computer which was a laptop, and it worked to use f.lux on the external mo

[Bug 1545264] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1545266 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1545266 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1545266 screen brightness slider has no effect -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu

[Bug 1545266] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs/+question/285285 Supposedly this is answered, but I think it was because of the duplication. Here's the output of this command $sudo dmidecode -t 1; lsb_release -a; uname -a # dmidecode 2.12 SMBIOS 2.7 present. Handle 0x0001, DMI type

[Bug 1545266] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
When I try to change the brightness, it is System Settings -> Brightness & Lock I have identified the package as unity-control-center, not ubuntu docs as I reported erroneously at first. It is not a bug against ubuntu-docs that I know of. ** Package changed: ubuntu-docs (Ubuntu) => unity-contro

[Bug 1545266] Re: screen brightness slider has no effect

2016-02-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
** Description changed: - Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS, seems to be fully updated + Trusty Tahr 14.04 LTS, seems to be fully updated. + + The problem is: When I go to System Settings -> Brightness & Lock, the + slider has no effect. I can decrease the brightness slider to any level + and the actual bri

[Bug 712377] Re: Opening a known good *.deb with software centre, fails to install as lintian errors cannot be overidden

2012-12-15 Thread Kevin Leeds
What would be a good place to look to find definitive information on "file-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile"? (In case I am paranoid and don't trust Google packages much or forum contributions from people not very well known to me, or interested to know where definitive documentation can be found in

[Bug 1152052] Re: Update to 19.0.2

2013-03-09 Thread Kevin Leeds
How can there be a security bug in a French language pack? It looks like all these links go to this same page? The original problem description doesn't seem to have anything related to data in a French language pack. What's up? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubu

[Bug 1152052] Re: Update to 19.0.2

2013-03-09 Thread Kevin Leeds
After a little more study, I think what happened is this: The links on this page lead to this long complicated discussion. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796839 Is this a correct interpretation : ? The security fix broke the language packs, so now they have to fix the language pac