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    How to set up Vaio SZ6xx brightness level on Fedora ???

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by Reason, Mar 8, 2008.

  1. Reason

    Reason Notebook Guru

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    Please step by step for newbie...
     
    Reason, Mar 8, 2008
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  2. szandor

    szandor Notebook Evangelist

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    you should be able to press the 'Fn' key and the up and down arrows to adjust the brightness. or you can adjust it through the power mangement preferences, gnome-power-preferences. or whatever the kde one is if you use kde.
     
    szandor, Mar 10, 2008
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  3. jam12

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    My Sony FZ's brightness doesn't work as well in Linux Mint. The way I reduce it is using colour calibration.

    - In Terminal, type in nvidia-settings and press enter.
    - Once it opens, click on x server Colour Correction.
    - Vary the top slider for different brightness levels.

    I can't find anyway in making the Fn brightness keys working but this is better than nothing imo. Btw, I don't think this method will increase battery life since its just calibrating the colour.

    Hope the helps!! :)
    Jam.
     
    jam12, Mar 13, 2008
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  4. Noth

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    The xbacklight command in your terminal should help to ajust the brightness. It's included with the latest version of X.org so if your distro is recent you should have it. You can then setup the keys to call the program as wished.
     
    Noth, Mar 17, 2008
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    Laptops with Mobile Geforce 8K series use GPU to control brightness, so they are quite tricky to work for with Linux. AFIAK, brightness change started to work on few laptops with 8600/8400 recently, but not yet on Sony laptops. Hopefully someone will find a way to do it sometimes.
     
    Woodgypsy, Mar 17, 2008
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