I was able to confirm this bug. smardimmer -i didn't work for me either. Hardware: Sony Vaio VGN-FE21H with its Nvidia GeForce Go 7400
Kubuntu: 9.10 NVIDIA driver version: 173.14.20 $ uname -a Linux laptop 2.6.31-19-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 01:26:53 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux nvclock: nvclock0.8b4-1ubuntu2 This bug is caused by a simple integer arithmetic issues in nv40.c (and nv50.c). Changing the step width for the increase and decrease (for completeness ) of the background brightness from 1 to 5 fixed this problem. The below patch works fine for me. I can't test it for any side-effects with other cards. -- smartdimmer doesn't increase brightness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422220 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
