[Cialug] HP dv2210us laptop presentation update

Matthew Nuzum matthew.nuzum at canonical.com
Tue Feb 27 17:21:01 CST 2007


On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:25 -0600, kristau wrote:
> I found out how to automagically change LCD brightness when
> connecting/disconnecting power:
> 
> "If you open gconf-editor, under apps -> gnome-power-manager, there
> you should have: AC_brightness, and battery_brightness. Change the
> values and it should be fine."
> 
> URL: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?s=d0030dbf29033da5173dbb90bb8522c8&t=290994&page=2
> 
> Of course, this means you need to run gnome-power-manager if you aren't already.

It also depends on Ubuntu understanding your bios acpi functions... and
on mine I guess I need the toshiba_acpi module, which doesn't load. :-)

I'm going to wait until 7.04 comes out, just in case my laptop becomes
automagically supported for this feature.
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Matthew Nuzum
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