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Does this work? sudo echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/video/*/LCD/brightness Should set the screen brightness to 50% Also, what window manager or desktop environment are you using? Thanks but that didnt work either! flumpy7@flumpy7-laptop ~ $ sudo echo -n 50 > /proc/acpi/video/*/LCD/brightness bash: /proc/a...

see if you can change the backlight from the terminal sudo apt-get install xbacklight then xbacklight -10 should decrease it be 10% and +10 should increase it by 10% Nothing happened. Heres the output. flumpy7@flumpy7-laptop ~ $ sudo apt-get install xbacklight [sudo] password for flumpy7: Reading p...

Hi thanks for quick reply but this fix didnt work. I have heard some people say that its because of the NB300bios but this isnt true as the brightness adjustment works fine with gOS linux. However, i dont want gOS linux i want linux mint!! Any further help appreciated.

Hi all

Just put mint 8 onto my toshiba nb300 netbook and all works fab except....I cant adjust the brightness of the screen! The F key adjusters dont work and neither does the brightness applet. I am very keen on being able to adjust the brightness so any ideas?

Thanks in advance

Please please could some kind person give me a step by step of how to get linux mint 6 to give me the option of 1280 x1024 resolution. This is the optimum for my monitor but mint just does not give me the option of it. My graphics card is nvidia 8600gt i have tried the proprietary drivers. Thanks!

Hi all. i have just installed linux mint 6 KDE and its really nice except.....i cant get the display resolution and screen refresh rate i want. This has actually been a problem with most distros i tried but in the past ubuntu and mint let me manually set the resolution etc by doing dpkg-reconfigure ...

Hi i cant get the mplayer plugin for firefox to work on the bbc site. On Bianca i used to be able to click on windows media player and it would launch the stream with mplayer...why doesnt this function work with cassandra? im gutted cause i love cassandra otherwise but i need bbc news! Any suggestio...

thanks for that much obliged. I hope in the future mintinstall will actually be accessed through the mintmenu and uninstall will be a one click job. Im not scared of the command line but it would be so much easier.

Hi might seem like a really stupid question.....but how do i uninstall apps installed using mintinstall?Thanks in advance

Any chance of having limewire in mintinstall...would be really grateful!

Hi im still fairly new to linux so sorry if this is a stupid question....i just installed limewire on to Bianca and wondered how to create a shortcut in the bianca menu and on the desktop. Not so bothered about the desktop but would deff like it in the Bianca menu. Also...does anybody know why limew...

Hi....still loving Bianca. Just ran the updates though (including new firefox) and get the following message instead of the linux mint homepage File not found Firefox can't find the file at /usr/share/ubuntu-artwork/home/index.html. * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing errors. * ...

Just like to say congrats on Bianca....i thought bea was the best linux ever but Bianca has perfected it. Everything works nicely, glad it looks a little less ubuntuish....yum....minty. I even managed to get my Lexmark printer working! Deff time to get rid of windows completely.