Screen Luminosity

Zach uid000 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 19 16:12:30 UTC 2005


I agree, it's a perfectly valid question.

One of the differences between Ubuntu (as well as linux in general
nowadays) and Linux several years ago, is that you can go to your
distro's community with a question about any part of the OS's software
stack and not be told, no that's gnome problem go ask them, or no,
that's a mplayer problem, check the mplayer lists, etc.

Also given that one of Ubuntu's Top Priority goals is "totally rad
laptop support", https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopMission &
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BreezyGoals, entertaining this sort of
question seems worthwhile.

It may turn out that it's controlled entirely by the machine's bios,
in which case it would be a laptop hardware issue, but it doesn't hurt
to try to help.

On 9/19/05, Lee Braiden <lee_b at digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> On Monday 19 September 2005 14:24, Derek Broughton wrote:
> > Zach wrote:
> > No, there just _may_ be an Ubuntu solution.
> 
> Presumably, Dario would have tried the buttons and found that they didn't work
> automatically.  That makes it a software problem, and therefore an ubuntu
> issue, unless you're arguing that newbies should track down the relevant
> low-level mailing list and start complaining before checking with their own
> distro first.
> 
> A lot of them *are* software based, and ubuntu does come with the relevant
> software, so I think it's a perfectly valid question.
>




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