Display Dimming When I Don't Want It To

[Daniel Armstrong]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Daniel Armstrong <daniel-r35aSzp7v8jQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi Jim... I recently picked up a Asus 1001P-MU17 netbook and tried out
> Lucid on it (now running Debian) and the screen brightness was all
> over the map. I fixed it by modifying the line /etc/default/grub to:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
>
> and rebooting. To get maximum brightness the first time after
> rebooting you may need to modify the brightness by hand... on my eeepc
> netbook its:

Forgot to add... after editing /etc/default/grub you need to run:

update-grub2

... before rebooting.
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