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h-munster:
The mention of xrandr reminded me of a peculiarity that I encountered with the stock Ubuntu on my Mini 9.

When I ran Ubuntu with a WM other than Gnome, I was unable to adjust the brightness with the keyboard.  However, I could still adjust the brightness with xbacklight, which uses xrandr.

So, if xrandr works on TC with xvesa, perhaps xbacklight is worth a try.

curaga:
The backlight adjustment via xrandr requires randr 1.2 from the server. Xvesa only implements 1.1.

nick65go:
Hi,

I would like just to know what you think about this ubuntu_remix like version for netbook OS: http://www.jolicloud.com/product/compatibility

I prefer the strong concept of TC modules, it will be for my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop; but for my Dell mini 9 netbook, I wish to "borrow" few of their intel atom optimized kernel, drivers, applications (firefox optimizations) etc.

Ideal, with grub2 I could boot ISO images, one for TC to work offline, other for Jolicloud for online...
It would be excelent if a TC extension will be special design for "Intel Atom 2xx CPU"

PS: http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/other-distributions/731-optimal-cflags-intel-atom-processors.html

Best regards, Nicolae

tinypoodle:

--- Quote from: h-munster on November 29, 2009, 05:21:33 PM ---In the meantime, if anyone has a clue as to why the /sys/class/backlight directory doesn't appear, please chime in.

--- End quote ---

either of:

--- Code: ---sudo modprobe generic_bl

--- End code ---
or

--- Code: ---sudo modprobe backlight

--- End code ---

do create the dir, however it remains unpopulated  :-\

(on a LG X 110 with 945GM chipset)

h-munster:
TC 3.0 now allows one to adjust the screen brightness on the Mini 9!

However, I am encountering new problems.  Suddenly, I can't get the wireless to function.  I see that some Broadcom modules are loading, but they don't seem to work.  I removed them and loaded the wl module, but that didn.t work, either.

Also, it took awhile for the proper screen resolution to appear.  It behaved very strangely.  I had 915resolution loading on boot, but I was getting the wrong resolution several times before the proper resolution finally kicked-in.

I would welcome any suggestions on how to fix the wireless, and I am curious if anyone knows what's happening with the screen resolution.

Thanks!

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