Brightness control not working by default in driver 304.37

[ferrazrafael]

Im using fedora 17 x86_64, with driver 304.37 packed by rpmfusion. But this bug seems to be in ubuntu too.

I have a Dell Vostro 3500 laptop with an geforce 310m.

I needed to include "EnableBrightnessControl=1" to have lcd brightness control working. Contacting rpmfusion, they said that nvidia should fix this, enabling brightnesscontrol by default. So here Im.

I first followed this guide to fix this.

http://askubuntu.com/questions/39391...3500-wont-work

And here is the rpmfusion bug report

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2465

thanks

[kwizart]

Note that the brighteness control worksforme with the same driver and a DELL 630.
So the root problem could be somewhere else. (ACPI ? Is there a bios update ?)

[kwizart]

I also note that you have been hit by the nvidia console problem.
You might need to add "video=vesa: off vga=normal" to the kernel parameter.
(Will be handled by the RPM Fusion package ASAP).

[ferrazrafael]

Originally Posted by kwizart

Note that the brighteness control worksforme with the same driver and a DELL 630.
So the root problem could be somewhere else. (ACPI ? Is there a bios update ?)

I have the lastes BIOS installed. Dell doesnt provide any VBIOS update soo far.

I tried add only the "acpi_osi=Linux" in the line with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= (located in /etc/default/grub), without changing xorg.conf but this didnt work. I needed to explicitly declare "EnableBrightnessControl=1" to work.

Maybe this could be elsewhere since brightness control couldnt work with nouveau too.