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I have recently installed Ubuntu 10.10 on my Dell Inspiron n5010 but screen brightness is not working, there is no effect of pressing fn+brightness keys.

Is there anyway to fix it?

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  • I have exactly the same laptop with 10.10 netbook installed and have no issues - you do not need to use the FN key just press the brightness keys (5th and 6th key on top row) Nov 28, 2010 at 10:38
  • Thanks everyone. I just updated the BIOS and now brightness is working great.
    – MA1
    Jan 27, 2011 at 13:49
  • Updated the BIOS... Please, provide more details about what exactly you updated/changed.
    – Denys S.
    Feb 2, 2011 at 8:23

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Thanks everyone.

I just updated the BIOS and now brightness is working great.

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  • How did you do it? Did you do so on Ubuntu?
    – Oxwivi
    Jun 4, 2011 at 12:04
  • @Oxwivi: Updated the BIOS from Windows, but you can do the update also from Linux.
    – MA1
    Jun 17, 2011 at 19:58
  • Ah, I see. Click on tick mark on the left of your answer to let others know that it fixed your problem.
    – Oxwivi
    Jun 17, 2011 at 20:31
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You may have to choose Dell Inspiron as your keyboard layout in the keyboard section of Administration. I had to do this with my Fujitsu Seimens Lappy.

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Maybe this laptop has the same problem as my Acer Aspire 4736Z.

These solutions might help you:

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Such shortcuts are handled by the udev subsystem. The configuration files exist in /lib/udev/.

The way it works is that you add a description of your laptop in /lib/udev/keymaps, and then activate it for your laptop in /lib/udev/rules.d/. There is more to the description I provide. You would need to read how similar laptop variants are handled already to get your laptop supported.

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I also have have Dell Inspiron N5010 model, Brightness settings works fine for me with Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. You dont need to press fn key to adjust the brightness.

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