Toshiba T110 brightness control "FN" doesn't work (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32 bit)

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I recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 32 bit in my Toshiba T110 laptop, and the brightness control doesn't work.

I have tried gedit /etc/default/grub, and have modified the "quite splash" to many suggestion that i have come across, like:

"quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor" and "quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux" and "quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"

but nothing seems to work, I mean i can see the brightness indicator moving but the brightness is set to highest all the time, Please help.

David · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-08 01:09:16Z

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you can try below command

xrandr --output LVDS1 --brightness 0.89

answered Jan 2, 2014 at 11:30

David

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Thanks for the answer David, I ran the line and here what I've got: xrandr --output LVDS --brightness 0.89 warning: output LVDS not found; ignoring xrandr: Need crtc to set gamma on.
– user163507
Jan 2, 2014 at 14:52
xrandr first , and chose your device id(may be VGA***)
– David
Jan 3, 2014 at 5:14
I realy appreciate your help David, any suggustions
– user163507
Jan 5, 2014 at 15:28
replace LVDS to LVDS1 is ok
– David
Jan 7, 2014 at 5:34

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user163507 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-23 20:48:41Z

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I got this to work running the following:

first I updated the kernel with the line sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic-lts-quantal

then I updated the x stack with the line sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-lts-quantal

after that I ran sudo gedit /etc/default/grub I modified where it says "quite splash" to "quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor" saved it.

updated grub using sudo update-grub , rebooted the system and now the "FN" works like magic

answered Jan 23, 2014 at 20:12

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