On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 18:25 +0100, Toralf Förster wrote: > /'m wondering why under a 64 bit RedHat 6.4 Linux with kernel 2.6.32+X > I do have 16 levels in dimming the display brightness with Fn+Pos1/End > whereas under a 32 bit Gentoo Linux with recent 3.1x.y kernels I do > just have 8 steps from min to max. I don't recall the details, but I made /etc/modprobe.d/bsb-brightness-step-fix.conf to fix this on my Ubuntu system. It seems I thought to include a link to where I found the solution. The contents are: # From https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/331361 options video brightness_switch_enabled=0 Maybe that is of some help. -- Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel