Brightness control goes crazy Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

[constrictor]

Hello everyone,

I own a MSI Wind u120, in which I installed Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook remix. It almost worked flawlessly, but it had a problem with the screen brightness when I control it via Fn+F4/F5.

If I don´t pree those buttons, everything goes fine, but if I press it, the brightness gets crazy, and It makes the system usable.

I need to find a way to control the brightness without those buttons, I thought in using the terminal for it, but don´t know how to command it for this.

Thank you all for your time, I hope you can help me in this one! Don´t want to go back to windows xp ! hahaha

[francsal]

Re: Brightness control goes crazy Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

I have the same problem, with the same PC. What I did, first was to disable the keyboard shortcuts, and that works MOST of the time. I can still adjust brightness with the Fn keys, but the % bar doesnt show on the screen.

Lately (perhaps because of the upgrades....) it started acting crazy again, even with the shortcuts disabled, so, if I want to adjust it, I do it via the battery icon on the taskbar.

Cheers.


Frank.

[jepong]

Re: Brightness control goes crazy Kubuntu 9.10 Netbook Remix

i'm using full version of Kubuntu 9.10 on my MSI Wind u100... have the same problems when i'm on batteries... probably its a powerdevil problem. :-(

i read from the ubuntu forums that there's a kernel update for these but not yet tested. maybe we can get it from ubuntu-update repos.