[Bug 77739] Re: LCD brightness setting doesn't work with Sony Vaio VGN-S5M

Fri Jan 12 19:45:25 UTC 2007

smartdimmer comes from smartdimmer package from main.

It seems to be a good idea to set smartdimmer as a dependency of the hal package if my solution is accepted. smartdimmer is also a dependency of acpi-support.

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apt-cache show smartdimmer
Package: smartdimmer
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 80
Maintainer: Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 0.1-2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1)
Filename: pool/main/s/smartdimmer/smartdimmer_0.1-2_i386.deb
Size: 16320
MD5sum: 124c6914f9d1395800a2bed62ee7074d
SHA1: 782ecec5fde1d62e01283b2b29d260f565594c45
SHA256: 27c1552303bc1f4439c31a7e6f719ab3811b416c3f5ad7631b16e1fefd4735e2
Description: Change LCD brightness on Geforce 6200Go cards
 Nvidia Geforce 6200Go cards contain hardware LCD brightness control.
 Smartdimmer allows this to be controlled through software.
Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Origin: Ubuntu
Task: ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop

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apt-cache rdepends smartdimmer
smartdimmer
Reverse Depends:
  acpi-support

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LCD brightness setting doesn't work with Sony Vaio VGN-S5M
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77739