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I purchased a new Lenovo g580 laptop. But I am totally disappointed when I installed Ubuntu on it. Almost all drivers are not working. :-( The laptop configuration is intel i3 processor Nvidia GeForce 610M graphics card.

I couldn't find the nvidia drivers in the additional drivers (jockey). The main problem is that the brightness control not working. I tried lots of methods explained in this site, but the result again disappointed me.

I am a student and I am using Linux, and the brightness control is the most urgent problem that have to be solved.

So experts please give me a solution.

thanks in advance

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Try adding the following line to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in the "Device" section for your GPU:

Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"

Then restart X and see if the brightness controls work. Probably the easiest way to restart X is to simple reboot the computer.

Source here.

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It's hard to tell what the problem is only with that information.

You could start by looking the directories under /sys/class/backlight/ there should be a couple of them.

Try to set the brightness by manually changing the file "brightness" in one of these directories (you have to do it as root)

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  • The problem is simply i cannot control the brightness using the function keys.
    – shijo
    Oct 5, 2012 at 18:36
  • Which version of ubuntu? (10.04/10.10/11.04/11.10/12.04/12.10/13.04) Apr 28, 2013 at 14:15
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Alternatively you can install xbacklight from USC and setup a start up entry with the command xbacklight -set % where you put your numbers in place of %

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Try this, it may solve you problem.It solved my problem on Acer aspire 4736 :

Open terminal by hittin Ctrl+Alt+t and apply this command.

sudo setpci -s 00:02.0 f4.b=xx

Here replace xx between 00[Bright] to ff[Dark]. It is a hexadecimal value that control your brightness.

For more information visit this link.

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