Re: Thinkpad ACPI Unsupported

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On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, Georges Giralt wrote:
> I own a brand new Lenovo E540 (20C600JHFR) fitted with a full HD LCD 
> screen.
> 
> I've installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS  and exploring the syslog file for 
> unsupported hardware I've found the following message :
> ========
>   thinkpad_acpi: Unsupported brightness interface, please contact 
> ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [   11.725474] thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight 
> brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
> [   11.725476] thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events 
> by default...
> ========
> 
> I noticed that the brightness control is very coarse instead of the 
> smooth control experienced in Windows
> How could I help ?

The brightness control is done by the gpu on just about every laptop
nowadays, so you should talk to the people behind the gpu drivers and x.org.

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