No brightness control with NVidia GeForce GTX 460M

[Todd A. Jacobs]

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Karl Larsen <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> How can I adjust the LCD monitor brightness with this system?
>>
>    You neglected to mention your software. If it is Ubuntu 10.04 updated to
> today then try the easy way first. Click on System-Preferences-Monitor and
> see if the brightness works.

It's 11.04, but it doesn't matter: with the Nvidia drivers, monitor
preferences don't do anything. Gnome power settings pretend they do
something, but don't. And the Gnome brightness applet doesn't actually
change the settings.