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Re: Nouveau and Nvidia backlight brightness



On Fri, 12 Nov 2010 08:51:39 -0500, Matt Simmons wrote:

> I am running Squeeze on my laptop: a macbook pro 7,1.Most is going well,
> except the backlight screen brightness. Using the nouveau driver (this
> laptop has a 320M), it sets my max_brightness to 1025 according to
> /sys/. Unfortunately, a brightness of 1025 is extremely dim, and
> supposedly the brightness should be more like 40,000 on this guy.
> Anyway, installing the NVidia proprietary driver yields strange results
> (download from NVidia, not debian repos), there is nothing in the folder
> /sys/class/backlight at all! Kernel 2.6.32-5 amd64.

Maybe related to this (message #25)?

pommed: brightness control no longer working on macbook pro
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=591264

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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