Re: Backlight mystery - anyone shed light?
On 22 Apr 2011, Camaleón wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 17:14:35 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > My HP laptop tends to boot with a dim screen.
>
> (...)
>
> Hum... some of the new HP notebooks have a sensor that automatically
> adjusts the brightness of the screen depending on the ambient light. This
> can be turned off in windows but I dunno if there is such utility for
> linux :-?
>
> What video driver are you loading?
>
> Greetings,
>
> --
> Camaleón
This is a laptop (6735s) and is over a year old so not very
new. I don't think it has that "feature".
It uses the radeon driver.
Anthony
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