I used the patch provided by nielsslot that allows to use a percentage instead of a numeric value and I also changed "sony-brightness-down" and "sony-brightness-up" and now when I adjust brightness via fn keys my display reports the actual brightness. I'm using kde, I don't know if it works also in gnome.
I created the two files "/etc/acpi/battery.d/90-brightness.sh" and "/etc/acpi/ac.d/90-brightness.sh" in order to use nvclock inside "/etc/acpi/power.sh", as suggested by seek, and it works too. Like Patrick I had to restart acpid in order to have nvclock working, but when I rebooted it stopped to work till I restarted acpid again. To avoid the continuous manual restart of acpid I used this workaround: 1) I created an executable file, "acpirestart.sh", that restarts acpid when kde is loaded. I placed it in "/home/~/.kde/Autostart/" (I don't know the path to gnome autostart): vim /home/~/.kde/Autostart/ #!/bin/sh sudo /etc/init.d/acpid restart 2) I changed "etc/sudoers" in order to allow to my user to restart acpid without providing a password: sudo EDITOR=vim visudo # Cmnd alias specification Cmnd_Alias ACPID = /etc/init.d/acpid # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL [username] ALL = NOPASSWD : ACPID -- No Screen Backlight Control; Sony Vaio with nvidia 8 series graphics https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/95444 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
