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brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 9th, '12, 00:19
by almusalimalmusalimah
hello everyone

i have a new laptop ...... it is ACER 5750z

all things on mageia 2 works fine on that laptop

except brighteness function

so is there anyway to fix this problem

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if you want some INFO about its specifications

http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/noteb ... Zsp2.shtml

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 9th, '12, 14:47
by marja
almusalimalmusalimah wrote:hello everyone

i have a new laptop ...... it is ACER 5750z

all things on mageia 2 works fine on that laptop

except brighteness function

so is there anyway to fix this problem



There is a similar bug report about an ACER Aspire 5633 and about an ACER Aspire 5740-6491
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919

However the report confuses me :(

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 10th, '12, 03:50
by sunnyjohn
Acer 5830TG
I added "acpi_osi=Linux" to grub menu entry and brightness controls work.

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 11th, '12, 20:21
by doktor5000
Acer 5739G - brightness controls work out-of-the box.

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 11th, '12, 20:22
by isadora
sunnyjohn wrote:Acer 5830TG
I added "acpi_osi=Linux" to grub menu entry and brightness controls work.

Helped me out, thanks!!!

Acer 7750

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 12th, '12, 12:09
by almusalimalmusalimah
where is that text file .. and where i add this line

and the more important thing here

is this bug from mageia or from GRUB

and why did the grub involve with this thing while it is OS functions

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 12th, '12, 12:37
by isadora
Used MCC -> Boot -> Set up boot system -> Next -> Modify

Re: brightness function doesn't work

PostPosted: Jul 13th, '12, 20:32
by doktor5000
almusalimalmusalimah wrote:is this bug from mageia or from GRUB

and why did the grub involve with this thing while it is OS functions


Neither - it's a bug in the ACPI implementation of your machine, as most vendors only optimize/fix those for windows within some windows drivers, but there remain many problems. And you need to tell the kernel to workaround those. And grub configuration is where you hand over kernel boot options. Simple as that.