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I've attempted to change the Backlight Brightness, by both the keyboard setting and directly in the screen settings. Both show that I've changed the brightness down to minimum neither actually changed the brightness level.

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did you enable the backlightbrightness to changable in xorg.conf?

remember, you need administrative properties for that, so open a terminal and do:

sudo gedit /etc/x11/xorg.conf

then please put this
Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

into the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf file ..

like shown here:

Section "Device" .. .. .. Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" EndSection

that should solve it

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Thank you that fixed the problem very nicely. I'm wondering atm, why it wasn't enabled by default. If you had any information on that, that could be interesting to know. Again, thanks I've had this problem for awhile. – Daniel Lounsbery Apr 8 '12 at 17:43
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If xorg.conf doesn't exist, it should be created? – naught101 Oct 12 '12 at 11:08

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