Re: Toshiba A305 S6859 / how do I control display brightness?

["Nelson Castillo" <nelsoneci@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
<bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 2008 December 20 15:40:01 Nelson Castillo wrote:
>> I have a Toshiba laptop [1] and I cannot stand  the maximum
>> brightness. My eyes hurt...
>>
>> What could I try?
>
> Look at:
> /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video*/max_brightness

Oh thanks! I should have used

  find /sys -iname "*bright*"

before,

echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

is working for me.

Thanks. This was making the system unusable for me.