Display Dimming When I Don't Want It To

[jim]

> > 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.
Thanks for all the help. I found out by running gconf-editor and going
to apps > gnome-power-manager > backlight I was able to set the dimming
when on AC to 100% . Strange that setting this in preferences for
gnome-power-manager didn't work. I had to use gconf-editor to get it to
stick??
Jim
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