Comment 102 for bug 333386

Sorry, when I saw it was a .deb file I had already sent de message.
I had no problem to install and it worked fine.
I have an Acer Aspire 5738

Fn keys work too, but I found a couple of isues:
* when using the Fn keys and you're near the less bright side it moves very
slowly (doesn't occur near the more bright side)
* It has a curious behaviour when connecting and disconnecting the power
adapter: sometimes changes brightness, sometimes not. Sometimes changes too
much, sometimes just to the half bright. And sometimes it changes even if
you don't do anything.

I hope it would help. I'm not an expert user, buy I offer my simple-user
experience.

Thanks to all of you

2009/8/28 Pablo Javier Ferrari Ferrando <email address hidden>

> Could you explain to me what should I do to install de kernel?
> Please think in a step by step explanation.
> Thanks,
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> Pablo Ferrari
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> 2009/8/27 Stefan Bader <email address hidden>
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> I finally found time to think of a version that might be acceptable to
>> get into Jaunty. I placed the kernels at the usual location at
>> http://people.canonical.com/~smb/bug333386/. In theory this should
>> detect your system, print a "Using less strict video detection" message
>> in dmesg and the brightness control should work. If this fails (because
>> I messed up the check) there is a second way by using
>> "acpi_video_strict_detect=0" as a boot parameter. Please let me know how
>> this works for you.
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>> Acer: Cannot change brightness with 2.6.27-11+ kernel
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/333386
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of a duplicate bug.
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>> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>> Status in linux in Ubuntu Intrepid: Fix Committed
>> Status in linux in Ubuntu Jaunty: In Progress
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>> Bug description:
>> Since the 2.6.27-11 generic kernel (also in 2.6.27-12) I cannot change the
>> backlight brightness anymore. In the latest kernel, it seems there's no more
>> file in /proc/acpi/video, but GFX0 still apears in 2.6.27-9 where I can
>> still change brightness. I'm new to linux so if you need information give me
>> the command to run. It's an acer 6920G laptop.
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