ubuntu and laptop question.

Mobius 1 · 26 May 2008 at 18:48

i have ubuntu installed on my laptop and was wondering is there anyway to dim the screen? the function key and dimmer keys/sound keys dont seem to work. :/ anyway to get these working?

bennyB · 26 May 2008 at 19:12

I don't know about getting the keys to work but if your laptop uses an nivida card you should be able to dim the screen through the nvidia settings package available through synaptic. This of course depends on you having an nvidia card, do you know what is doing the graphics? is it a graphics card or onboard graphics?

Mobius 1 · 26 May 2008 at 21:19

bennyB said:
I don't know about getting the keys to work but if your laptop uses an nivida card you should be able to dim the screen through the nvidia settings package available through synaptic. This of course depends on you having an nvidia card, do you know what is doing the graphics? is it a graphics card or onboard graphics?

onboard. :/

Mobile Intel(R) 965 Express Chipset Family

so its not very good.

bennyB · 26 May 2008 at 22:34

This might be worth a look if your laptop is hp: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4178093#post4178093 or i have also seen mentions of a brightness app, im guessing available through synaptic (im on xp so i cant check). Seems like this is common problem specifically for ubuntu though.

Mobius 1 · 26 May 2008 at 22:39

bennyB said:
This might be worth a look if your laptop is hp: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4178093#post4178093 or i have also seen mentions of a brightness app, im guessing available through synaptic (im on xp so i cant check). Seems like this is common problem specifically for ubuntu though.

ok ill take a look, cheers..