ive installed ubuntu 10.4 beta on a toshiba a505-s6015 intell i5 processor and intel integrated graphics.it worked fine then the backlight went off.well i restarted it a couple of times and it wouldnt come back on.how do i fix this problem?
View 2 RepliesOn a couple of Linux laptops I have the built in screen never turns off it's backlight, regardless if a 'black screen' sort of screen saver is activated (this both for a laptop running an X-based desktop as well as for a laptop only having a text console) or if I even close the lid of the laptop (looking carefully in the dark, I can tell that the screen still has the backlight on, even if the laptop "know" it is closed).
This is a bad thing for a couple of reasons:
It wastes power
It generates heat which when the laptop lid is closed increases the cooling need (the fan goes on more often etc).
Backlights have limited lifetime like all electric components and IIRC, the less a backlight is turned on, the longer it will last. So, what is the best approach (considering a Gentoo with a 2.6.36 kernel) to remedy this? I recon that there probably are two approaches:
One for text-only laptops which never displays a desktop, e.g a laptop sitting there acting like a firewall or server
one for those running a Gnome/KDE/XFCE desktop (and a SLIM or GDM display manager).
The laptops I have in mind is a Dell Latitude CPi (built 1999, yes, it is from another millenea), a Compaq Armada M700 (built 2001) and a Dell Latitude D630. If this can be accomplished only by configuring things in the Linux OS (be it kernel setup or editing config files) without touching anything in BIOS, that would of course be preferable.
The title says it all. I am using an Acer Aspire laptop that I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 today. There is no backlight. What's the fix?
View 9 Replies View RelatedDebian Lenny on a Toshiba Portege 350000:08.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 Power Management Controller [PMU]01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82)kernel version 2.6.26-2-686On my system, "xset dpms force off" blanks the screen, but does not turn off the backlight. This means that the automated screen off in X does not actually save any power when it blanks the screen.I can turn off the backlight manually using the BIOS tool "vbetool dpms off" (but then I have to turn it back on again manually too).Question 1: is this a problem with the graphics driver interface, or with X, or with the power management driver interface?Question 2: as a workaround, is there any way for me to hook into the dpms off/on that X is doing, and run a script to call vbetool? The best workaround hack I have come across so far is to have a screensaver that calls vbetool, but I was hoping to find something that doesn't require me to run a daemon all the time.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been given the task of installing CentOS 5.5 on some new Fujitsu Siemens S710 laptops and have the following problem. The OS seems to install without any issues but when it starts up you can see the login prompt just as the backlight is off on the laptop screen. If you were to plug in an external monitor it will work fine and the screen is perfect. The only thing I can think of is if the video drivers need to be updated but I can't seem to fine any Linux ones. It seems to use the Intel mobile HD graphics chipset.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just finished installing Fedora 11 and I'd love to love it but the issue is I can't see the screen without straining my eyes. So I bring to you almighty support forum a challenge: Need to enable the screen backlight. The laptop model is an Asus G50-X5
View 1 Replies View RelatedWith keyboard : Illuminant model SK-020EL See next post for a workaround.
ETA : Code now works for my keyboard.
unning 11.2 on laptop used as stationary desktop. Normally, the backlight turns off after several minutes of inactivity from keyboard/mouse. However, once video played using VLC, the screen simply blanks while backlight stays on, until system restart. Using Totem does not have this effect, but I like VLC.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have an Asus K50IJ running Fedora(which I love as it fixed my sound problems). When I first log in, I can press the brightness keys and it responds immediately for 4-5 keypresses. After that, it has a ~10 second delay between me pressing the key and the computer responding. When using acpi_listen, it displayed that it recognizes the event long after I press the key. This is a pretty minor issue, but very annoying. Here's some possibly-relevant output from dmesg:
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ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:06:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) succeeded
ata2.00: ACPI cmd ef/10:03:00:00:00:a0 (SET FEATURES) filtered out
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I have a note HP Pavilion 15-p171nr with Deban Wheezy installed
used X = Gnome (gdm3) in classic view
Hardware:
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00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0b)
0a:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation Device 1341 (rev a2)
yaroslav@hpnote:~$
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The problem: backlight is in maximum state and I can not change it.
There are a tons of advices like this:
1 - Open terminal (as a superuser) and type: gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub
2 - In the text file that opens, find the line which says GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" and, inbetween the "", insert the words "acpi_backlight=vendor" (the line will be as follows: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_backlight=vendor"), save and close the file.
3 - Back again in the terminal session, type: sudo update-grub
4 - Reboot.
It does not work...
I have been running Squeeze for quite a while on my Asus W5F laptop, and recently I have started having intermittent issues with it not starting the backlight after returning from suspend/sleep. Most of the time, the screen comes on as it is supposed to, but once in a while the computer resumes but the backlight is off. It is not just turned down to the lowest brightness setting, it is all the way off. I can read the screen only if I take a flashlight and shine it on the screen and look very closely. Most of the time, it is just easier to go to another machine and use ssh to restart.
I'm not familiar with how the suspend/resume process works, so I don't really know where to look for configuration options. It seems like there are a number of different places, but how they work together, I don't know....
Neither the keyboard brightness adjustment nor echoing values to /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness have any effect, though these do work to change the brightness when the backlight is on.
I took a look in /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-suspend-linux, which shows the following options.
[ "$HAL_PROP_POWER_MANAGEMENT_QUIRK_S3_BIOS" = "true" ] && QUIRKS="$QUIRKS --quirk-s3-bios"
[ "$HAL_PROP_POWER_MANAGEMENT_QUIRK_S3_MODE" = "true" ] && QUIRKS="$QUIRKS --quirk-s3-mode"
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The laptop is several years old and has had the lcd display replaced a year or two ago. It is possible that it is a hardware failure, but I lean away from that because a restart always brings the screen up fine, as does closing and opening the lid (which blacks the screen, no suspend).
I'm writing a script to toggle LCD backlight on my laptop between minimum and previous/current level. I will then assign this script to a button. For this I need to be able to adjust backlight by using some command line utility. Also, this must be possible to be performed by a regular user.
What I have already tried:
1) The "xbacklight" utility. This didn't work. Program reported something like "no outputs found".
2) Used "acpitool -l <backlight_level>". This didn't work either.
3) The "echo -n 100 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness" works only when I am root. Changing permission of the file to allow writes by a user only valid until reboot. After reboot I need to change permission again, so this approach is not good either.
What works on my laptop, but with GUI:
1) Adjusting LCD brightness in "System->Preferences->Power Management" works.
2) Adjusting brightness with Gnome Brightness Applet works. However, after changing brightness with applet it says "Cannot get laptop panel brightness" and shows red crossed circle icon. Even after applet shows this message, it is possible to change the backlight level. It seems like the brightness level cannot be retrieved by the applet/system, but it can be set.
I can see that it is definitely possible to adjust LCD brightness through software because of the 2 things above, but how do I allow any user to change it from command line?
So, what are my other possible choices for changing backlight from command line?
I am dual-booting Karmic/OS X. I have a MacBook Pro 5,1. When using the keyboard to change the backlight, the graphic in the top left does move to indicate a higher brightness (albeit, it moves extremely slowly).
I, of course, have all the necessary drivers installed.
I have all the packages I needed from the Mactel repository. This has been a problem within Karmic since I've put it on my MBP. There have been several updates from the Mactel repository concerning the Nvidia backlight package (I don't remember exactly what that package is called though). I hope each time that it will fix what is going on, but obviously, it hasn't.
Is there any program that I could use to otherwise change the backlight? When I'm sitting outside it's really difficult to see what's on my screen as it also doesn't automatically respond to the change in environmental brightness by making the screen brighter.
I have an Asus P50IJ-X2 and in lucid the backlight cannot be adjusted. The panel app doesnt work, when I click on it and try to adjust the slider it just disappears. When I reopen it the slider is at the top left corner of the screen.
The function keys seem to be detected alright, but when I press them I get the notification that the brightness is going down but nothing happens. Also after the first press the notification gets extremely laggy. If I press the brightness keys again it takes 30 seconds or more for the notification to show up. Also after the first press my volume function keys have the same behaviour in the notification area as the function keys.
Also messing with the controls in the power settings doesn't do anything. The strange thing is all of this worked perfectly in Karmic. The function keys, auto dimming, everything just worked out of the box. I have no idea where to start trouble shooting this so can anyone give me some direction?
Just upgraded to 10.04. Everything seems to still work on my Macbook, with a bonus being the buttons to modify the keyboard backlight brightness seem to work now.
However, the only caveat is that I can't seem to turn off the backlight. Pressing the dim button all the way to off just seems to reset to full brightness. Even if I set the brightness to 1 (almost off), the backlight seems to reset itself to full brightness at seemingly random times.
Running this command used to turn it off, but now doesn't work:
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echo 0 | sudo tee -a /sys/class/leds/smc::kbd_backlight/brightness
Is this a bug? How do I turn off the keyboard backlight?
Fn + brightness-rightness+ = shows notification about brightness status (50%), but does not control the intensity of backlight. it's just stuck on 50% and that's all.
Ubuntu 10.04 x64,
notebook vaio vgn-nw21mf.
I am doing a project that involves dimming monitor backlight and Im in the process of searching a PC to be used for the project.
I ran ubuntu live cd in a PC shop to see if I can use the ff command: echo 30 > /proc/acpi/video/xxx/xxx/brightness
However, all brightness files just contain <not supported>. Is there another way to adjust the brightness (not using buttons)?
Since the monitor is dimming when idle (through built in power management), is it safe to assume that there is a way to do this?
I already need to confirm if we would order the PC. PC is Asus ET1610PT (all-in-one PC, touchscreen monitor)
After upgrading to Mythbuntu 10.10 from 9.10 (clean install) on my combined front/backend I cannot get monitor (Dell 3007) to switch off from remote, I have been using simple script to DPMS force off for years with no problems, it still works, but some random time later the backlight comes back on. I have tryed the more complex scripts that stop and start the frontend and all of the acpi_osi options. Disabling screensaver has no effect. what causes this, or how to fix? Sysem is Abit IP35e (I suspect this board is the problem)
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I have 2 remote frontends both upgraded OK. I have tryed installing 10.10 on a 'scrap' P4 machine, DPMS off works fine on it. I would try another install and/or another MoBo but its the only TV system in the house now.
I've finished integrating proper keyboard backlight support into gnome-power-manager (which in turn uses upower to actually control the keyboard backlight) which with any luck will be available in Natty out of the box. A similar patch should also land upstream too so Fedora etc should get it for free too in their next release too. In essence this allows us to provide the user with greater feedback and control than say just using pommed (ie. we can dim the keyboard on idle like the lcd display etc, and can display nice notifications of the keyboard backlight level too - see attached screenshot).
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Failed to start Load/Save Screen Backlight Brightness of backlight:acpi_video0. See systemctl status systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service' for details.
I have a Toshiba A665-S6092. Core i7 CPU and I installed a Kingston SSD so it's up to the job. It supposedly has keyboard backlight but I can't figure out how to get that function functioning. Now, I know this ain't real important but I have a feeling other people might like to have that too so I'm asking. Does anybody in Fedora Land have any experience getting Toshiba keyboard backlight working? Maybe I'm wrong about it having this option, I can't find any mention of it using all the tools at my disposal. lspci, the Gnome device lister, xorg keyboard config, etc. Apparently everything except the right thing. I've Googled until I'm Googleyed and searched this forum and LinuxQuestions.org (which seems to have been hijacked by Slackware fanatics over the last few years) and other forums like JustLinux, Linux.com. I can't remember them all. I've looked through source code that I could make no sense of and wondered why I was pretending to be qualified to do that until I realized how important this has become to me, although it is as I said a relatively trivial matter. If anybody knows and wants additional information I'll be more than happy to supply it. I'm running the default kernel for Fedora 14 64 bit, 2.6.35.6-45.fc14.x86_64.
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I suspect that the sluggishness is due to disk activity since the CPU usage is consistently under 50% on each of the 4 cores of the CPU, and over 30% of the 6GB of RAM are free.
Is there a tool that can show me in real time the number of disk IO operations per second and the amount of data read/written per second? Can all this info be broken down and displayed per process?
I want to write a shell script, so that at 9AM every morning a general will be sent automatically to my network users E-Mail ID. My users are as follows: akhtaruzzaman@a[URL], ariful.[URL] etc.
Below is my little effort:
# !/bin/bash
userlist=`cut -f 1 -d : /etc/passwd`
mail -s "mailbackup" << END
keep mailbackup in another drive daily for security purpose
I'm using my Linux (SLES 10) server as a File Server at this point. I need to set File Permissions to nested folders differently to different groups. For example:
homesharedengineering* should be read only for groupA
homesharedengineeringadmin should be read & write for groupB Plus read only for groupA
homesharedengineeringautocad should be read & write for groupC Plus read only for groupA
I've been using Webmin and Putty to set permissions but Putty only allows me the Default Group, it won't allow me to set several groups on the same directory. Webmin seems to allow me to add multiple groups (Webmin --> Others --> File Manager --> Info & ACL tab will provide extended abilities) but when I add multiple groups, they don't seem to take effect? I'm wondering if my setup at the 'Share' level or at the hierarchy of my folder structure (unix based) needs to be set specifically?
I have Windows 7 on my Dell Xps laptop, and I want to install Ubuntu or Fedora as a dual-boot. Will that cause my system to slow down?
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A friend of mine helped me set up a server which includes Squirrel Mail.It?s CentOS 5.3.I have a person who would like to access Squirrel Mail at remote sites.My questions is, I can create an account on the server which has KDE and the usual general applications and he would have the remote access Squirrel Mail but he doesn?t need nor does he want to access KDE or anything else on my server. He just want an account so he can use Squirrel Mail.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have the impression that not that many people understand the scope and limitations of GNU General Public License. This is somehow my basic understanding of it. If I take a program covered under the GNU license, first of all I have the right to get the source code. Second, I can modify it at will. Third, I can redistribute it as will too but the new code will necessarily will have the same GNU license. This made me wonder how people actually can charge for software derived from Linux, for instance, Red Hat. Well, my impression is that they really make profit only out of services. In this thread [URL] I think I found a lot of confusion, even from a moderator (not intended to offend). Red Hat is based on Linux and it is necessarily covered under GNU. Somebody probably bought the program from RHE and can make it available at no cost.
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I need to allow certain users (who do not have root access) to be able to stop and start specific daemons
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