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Brightness problem in Ubuntu 12.04

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Every one facing and asking for help with brightness problem in Ubuntu 12.04, this problem exist in some HP Pavilion, Acer and Dell series and maybe for some others, some people trying the xrand solution that just decreases the Contrast which had no effect on the power consumption !
This solution will solve this problem permanently, just follow the these steps


Step 1: Open the terminal and write the following command

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Step 2: Find this line in the new opened file

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

Step 3: Replace the last line with the following one

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

Step 4: Save the changes and close the editor

Step 5: Update GRUB as follow

sudo update-grup

Step 6: reboot the system and enjoy !

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