On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 11:12 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > After updating the kernel to 2.6.31.9, I was pleasantly surprised to see > that my laptop's ACPI keys for adjusting the display brightness are now > working, for the first time ever. > > On another laptop, whose display brightness ACPI keys have worked for a > while, there's a large icon that pops up on the Gnome desktop when I adjust > the display brightness level. It sort of looks like a big lightbulb, with a > slider underneath that scrolls horizontally, when I change the screen's > brightness level. > > On this laptop, the lightbulb does not pop up, only the display brightness > changes. The only difference that I can think of is that the other one is > running compiz (and the big lightbulb comes up as a semi-opaque overlay over > the desktop), and this laptop's video hardware does not have accelerated > support, so no compiz here. Would that be it -- just curious. > I see the brightness applet as something optional that you can add to the panel However,my laptop has a FN up and down arrow that does the same thing. -- ======================================================================= A man's best friend is his dogma. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
