Brightness Control

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Hello everyone

I want to know how to enable brightness control in openSUSE 10.3. My laptop
is Compaq Presario v6409.

Thank you.

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In kde you should be able to use kpowersave
right click configure

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In kpowersave, the brightness control part is grayed out.

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This probably means that somethings missing.
Go to yast > software and search for laptop.
There are several tools available p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }spicctrl is 1 for screen brightness.
You can also add ** Laptop Mode Tools**
Also make sure powersave and its libs are installed

/Geoff

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geoffro wrote:
> This probably means that somethings missing.
> Go to yast > software and search for laptop.
> There are several tools available p, li { white-space: pre-wrap;
> }spicctrl is 1 for screen brightness.
> You can also add * Laptop Mode Tools*
> Also make sure powersave and its libs are installed
>

I found spicctrl is for Sony vaio laptops. I found another package smartdimmer which is for nVidia cards.

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the brightness control part is grayed out.

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Hello everyone, I have a Gateway 6847m laptop with an Intel 965GM video card, and I seemed to have the same screen brightness issue.

I found this link (for Ubuntu, but I might as well tried and it worked!):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xbacklight/+bug/176888

and it helped me solve it.
In short, it says that with this video card using the logged user in a terminal type this:

xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL native

BUT if your screen brightness takes too long to change type this:

xrandr --output LVDS --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL legacy

I hope I helped out.
Alex

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Are you not able to use the buttons on the keyboard to increase/decrease brightness?