By BIOS 'controls' I assume you mean the brightness controls on your laptop. Have you looked through all BIOS settings to see if there is a power management/battery saver feature in the BIOS that Gnome may not be able to override? birger -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines