hp ubuntu 10.04 cannot get laptop panel brightness

Asked by sana.from.pakistan@gmail.com

hi
i cannot decrease laptop screen brightness

i added brightness to panel but it says "cannot get laptop panel brightness " and no effect of slider

no effect of function keys to decrease brightness

plz help me my eyes will pop out due to this increased brightness.

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sana.from.pakistan@gmail.com (sana-from-pakistan) said :
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$ sudo lshw -c video
  *-display UNCLAIMED
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: Intel Corporation
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:d4000000-d43fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable) ioport:5000(size=64)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
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What make and model is the system?
Have you considered using Precise? Lucid has less than 6 months support left. Why such an ancient release?

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