Hey all! I'm new here and new to Linux, and I'm trying to overcome a problem with screen brightness that seems to be common with the ASUS 1001p netbook. I hope I'm in the right section of the forum; there's no separate video card, of course, but I don't see any other area where this would belong. If it needs to be moved, please do so.
I loaded Linux Lite 2.2 32-bit today, and while it's clear, even with my limited experience, that this PC is better suited to Linux Lite, the screen won't go as bright as it did with Windows.
I updated the BIOS to the most recent version available from ASUS, but that made no difference.
I searched the web and found references to this problem with other versions of Linux revolving around editing the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. I found two different edits, written as follows:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
...and I tried both (separately, of course) but neither made any difference. Linux Lite tells me that brightness is at maximum, and changing it doesn't make the screen dimmer.
This is far from the biggest problem I could have, but it'd be nice to be able to fix it if a fix exists with Linux Lite.
If it helps, the hardware specs are as follows:
Atom N450 CPU
2 gb RAM
Crucial M4 128 gb SSD
Intel GMA 3150 video, screen resolution 1024x600
The RAM and SSD are my upgrades to the original equipment.
Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can offer.
I loaded Linux Lite 2.2 32-bit today, and while it's clear, even with my limited experience, that this PC is better suited to Linux Lite, the screen won't go as bright as it did with Windows.
I updated the BIOS to the most recent version available from ASUS, but that made no difference.
I searched the web and found references to this problem with other versions of Linux revolving around editing the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. I found two different edits, written as follows:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor"
...and I tried both (separately, of course) but neither made any difference. Linux Lite tells me that brightness is at maximum, and changing it doesn't make the screen dimmer.
This is far from the biggest problem I could have, but it'd be nice to be able to fix it if a fix exists with Linux Lite.
If it helps, the hardware specs are as follows:
Atom N450 CPU
2 gb RAM
Crucial M4 128 gb SSD
Intel GMA 3150 video, screen resolution 1024x600
The RAM and SSD are my upgrades to the original equipment.
Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can offer.