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Acer Aspire 5749 running 11.10

Asked by johnny

Hello Ubuntu Team,

just a remark on the Ubuntu Friendly test for the Acer Aspire 5749: the function keys do work to change the screen brightness when you add the following to the the boot options : acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor

Maybe this helps to add one more star for the system at least in Precise 12.04.

Best Regards
Jan

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johnny (jrb81) said : 		#1

Hello,

after severel retests and also thanks to Toz on ubuntuforums.org I can confirm:

 - only the boot option acpi_backlight=vendor has to be set to have the screen brightness function keys work
 - additionally one should update to kernel 3.0.0-15 to solve a problem with a black screen after reopening the notebook lid

g, jb

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johnny (jrb81) said : 		#2

Hello,

after severel retests and also thanks to Toz on ubuntuforums.org I can confirm:

 - only the boot option acpi_backlight=vendor has to be set to have the screen brightness function keys work
 - additionally one should update to kernel 3.0.0-15 to solve a problem with a black screen after reopening the notebook lid

g, jb