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Ubuntu 20.04 brightness adjust not working
I am unable to adjust brightness levels through Gnome. I had the same issue with 18.04 but it was resolved there (honestly, I can't remember how).
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Installed Ubuntu 22.04 and I experience frequent freezes and crashes (when using NVIDIA graphics card)
I have been using an old Windows desktop (Asus motherboard, i5 CPU, 120 GB SSD, about 8 years old) to run my Home Assistant server without issues for a few months. I decided I wanted to switch to ...
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Another black screen after Nvidia driver installing
I've installed the lastest Nvidia driver for my Graphic Card (a .run file), I've followed Nvidia instructions (http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/331.20/README/index.html) and placed .run ...
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My laptop can *only* use an external monitor after manually installing NVIDIA driver from manufacturer in Ubuntu 22.04
After following my own detailed manual installation instructions here for an NVIDIA video driver, my laptop no longer shows anything on the built-in monitor! The "Display" settings also ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 laptop brightness keys not working
I have a Lenovo Legion 7 laptop with Nvidia RTX 2070 GPU and the brightness keys on the laptop do not change the brightness at all (it stays on max brightness it seems). I tried adding some parameters ...
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Brightness control not working on Lenovo Ideapad Creator 5 Ubuntu 20.04
I have this laptop: https://laptopmedia.com/review/lenovo-ideapad-creator-5-15-review-fresh-alternative-for-professionals-on-the-budget/
It has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650.
I never had the brightness ...
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Lost macbook pro LCD backlight brightness controls after installing nvidia driver
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with the 5.11.0-34-generic kernel on my mid-2009 macbook pro which has nvidia geforce 9400M graphics hardware. Suspend and wake from suspend does not work with the nouveau ...
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Proprietary NVidia drivers with EFI on Mac, to prevent overheating
I have a dual-boot Mac OS X 10.8 and Kubuntu 12.10 64x on my white MacBook from mid-2010 installed. (Model identifier: MacBook7,1 . I have upgraded my RAM from 2GB to 8GB, if that matters.) I have ...
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Screen Brightness Ubuntu with nvidia driver
So far, I've tried this solution to my problem:
Brightness not working after installing NVIDIA driver
Actually, I don't want to create a global x.org file, I want to create:
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Screen brightness not working
I use Ubuntu 12.04 on my Sony Vaio (VPCCW2HGX). At the first times, brightness control works well, but after the activating additional drivers (nvidia accelerated graphics driver) brightness control ...
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Change brightness Vaio FZ
I can't change the brightness on my Vaio VGN-FZ340E. There isn't even a slider on the screens window. The only way I've found to do it is to use smartdimmer throught the command line, however this is ...
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Ubuntu MATE brightness keys not working on MacBookPro7,1 with NVIDIA driver, even after fix
I tried the fix detailed in the first answer for this question: Brightness not working after installing NVIDIA driver
The second answer caused a failed boot and I had to fix it via Recovery.
The ...
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Ubuntu gets stuck at boot screen (freeze, not black) after attempting brightness fix for NVIDIA card
I tried editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf as detailed here: Brightness not working after installing NVIDIA driver
My Ubuntu MATE installation on my MacBook Pro Mid-2010 13" now gets stuck at the "UbuntuMATE"...
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Brightness change freezes Ubuntu with Noveau and Nvidia drivers [duplicate]
Both Nvidia and Noveau were working fine before my bios update and now they both crash when I change the brightness. Integrated still works fine with brightness and I've tried several Nvidia drivers ...
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unable to change brightness settings in sony vaio e series laptop
I am using Sony Vaio E Series VPCEH25EN laptop.
I installed ubuntu 12.04 64 bit version and I couldn't change my brightness level.
Always it is showing max brightness,
I tried to change by using ...
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