Brightness fix for Lucid from Joe L
As I have not moved to Lucid yet, not much played with brightness.
Then thanks to Joe L, I guess he found a universal brightness fix for Ati and radeon/hd drivers in Lucid. Read it, try it and report back how it works 
Hi egaistek,
Note that this is not a universal solution. In the previous thread it is being reported not working for at least these models:
. FW31ZJ
. FW35G_B
I’d like also to note that according to the docs HAL has been removed from 10.04. This may actually be the problem:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input#Input%20Configuration%20with%20udev%20%28Ubuntu%2010.04%29
Thanks to Sean for the link.
Luís
Luís
July 21, 2010 at 12:39
Just as an addendum, the fix provided by Vânio Ferreira works perfectly well for the FW31ZJ (which I own). Though it seems it has to be repeated every time there’s some system update.
Regards.
Luís
July 21, 2010 at 23:36
This solution is also failing with models FW21 and FW41. But on both of them installing the latest ATI driver is being reported as a solution.
Luís
July 28, 2010 at 19:15
The brightness issue it’s a story in Vaio-Ubuntu, just after install it, insure that you charged the correct driver for nVidia, for your kernel, and go to check in your Synaptic that you have installed the “smartdimmer”, then open a terminal and type:
smartdimmer -s 50
You’ll set you brightness to 50%, if you want it less do it…
And to set this issue to start with you system in start up, go to system – preferences -startup applications, and set it as application to start with…
It’s less then 1,2,3….
Viva Ubuntu!!
Chears:p
Ubunter
July 21, 2010 at 12:51
FW models have intel or ati graphics no nvidia for us here
Matt
July 22, 2010 at 08:44
I can also report that this ‘universal’ fix does not work for my FW-390.
Matt
July 22, 2010 at 08:45
Didn’t work on my FW390J (sticker says VGN-FW390, but oddly the command returns FW390J).
Appreciate the work though!
myname
July 22, 2010 at 13:39
Quick question: are you using the open source driver or the ATI one?
Joe L
July 27, 2010 at 05:11
YES!! Finally!
Installing the Catalyst 10.7 / fglrx 8.753 solved the problem right out of the box.
This whole problem made me so angry!
By the way:
Using a Sony VAIO VGN-FW41ZJ
Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64
Christian Adamski
July 27, 2010 at 20:20
yeah, this works for me, thx christian
I have a vaio FW11M, and after upgrading to Lucid I’ve upgrade fglrx to 8.753 (http://www.ubuntuupdates.org/packages/show/202833) and installed Catalyts 10.7.
Reboot and then it works!!!
ivan
August 2, 2010 at 16:46