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laptop monitor dim

Posted: 17. Dec 2009, 09:09
by witek
When system startx my laptop monitor is dim. I have to increase brightness with functions keys. Same situation when I switch to terminal with Ctrl+Alt+Fx and when screen saver activates. Any idea how to fix that?

I found that

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echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness
works as root. However neither adding this to rc.local nor adding this to xfce autostart seems to work :(
But then from root console it works.

Re: laptop monitor dim

Posted: 17. Dec 2009, 10:25
by gapan
Try something like

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sleep 30 && echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness
in rc.local

Re: laptop monitor dim

Posted: 17. Dec 2009, 12:36
by witek
shouldn`t this be rather put in the background?

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(sleep 30 && echo -n 87 > /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCDD/brightness ) &

Re: laptop monitor dim

Posted: 17. Dec 2009, 12:37
by gapan
Yep.