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I cant seem to be able to adjust the brightness on my think-pad laptop running Ubuntu 10.04. In the power management applet it shows that the power is set to 100%, but even if i try to lower it the actual screen brightness dosent change.

Any ideas of how I can get around this?

I tried changing the brightness from the terminal but its already set to Max brightness (however the actual screen brightness is no that bright at all).

Thanks

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oh，I've met this problem before.All you need to do is:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

find segment like this:

Section "Device"
Identifier    "Default Device"
Driver    "nvidia"
Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
EndSection

change it like this

Section "Device"
Identifier    "Default Device"
Driver    "nvidia"
Option    "NoLogo"    "True"
Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
EndSection

JUST ADD THIS LINE: Option "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1" !

Then restart,It will work.

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  • Where do i place this line? I tried putting it at the end of the file, and when I restart the laptop is just crashes on boot up (just freezes on the linux load screen). – Mo. Nov 30 '11 at 12:19
  • lol!Sorry for that,I forgot to tell you that you should add this line in the Section "Device" .I'll edit my answer.Sorry for that – Archeosudoerus Nov 30 '11 at 12:38
  • This helped me as well on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Thank you! – montrealist May 9 '12 at 15:39
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I was able to get my brightness keys working on my Lenovo W530 on Ubuntu 12.04 (posting here to help people looking for answer in future)...

These days X automatically configures itself, so you can't just edit the xorg.conf file, you, instead need to add a section to a file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and X will include that section in the configuration that it automatically generates.

So to get the screen brightness keys working with your Nvidia graphics card, create a file in the xorg.conf.d directory, e.g:

sudo gedit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-brightness.conf

Paste the following into the file:

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "Quadro K1000M"
    Option         "RegistryDwords" "EnableBrightnessControl=1"
EndSection

Log out and log back in, or reboot, and your brightness keys should now work!

(I blogged this here)

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  • I also have a Lenovo W530 on Xubuntu 13.10 and had this same problem. This answer is the only thing that fixed it. – OSE Oct 26 '13 at 22:53

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