Hi
Object:
NVIDIA brightness settings
I upgraded yesterday to UP6
I have a Toshiba laptop L-750. They are perfect except for brightness settings (of this later)
roger@lmde64:~$ inxi -F
System: Host lmde64 Kernel 3.2.0-2-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Distro Linux Mint Debian Edition
CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3-2330M (-HT-MCP-) cache 3072 KB flags (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips 8779.76
Clock Speeds: (1) 800.00 MHz (2) 800.00 MHz (3) 800.00 MHz (4) 800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card NVIDIA Device 0dec X.Org 1.12.1.902 Res: 1366x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer GeForce GT 525M/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 302.17 Direct Rendering Yes
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA GF108 High Definition Audio Controller driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 01:00.1
Card-2 Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller driver snd_hda_intel BusID: 00:1b.0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.24
Network: Card-1 Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit Ethernet driver atl1c v: 1.0.1.0-NAPI at port 2000 BusID: 0a:00.0
Card-2 Realtek RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter driver rtl8192ce at port 3000 BusID: 09:00.0
Disks: HDD Total Size: 640.1GB (9.5% used) 1: /dev/sda TOSHIBA_MK6465GS 640.1GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 30G used: 7.6G (28%) fs: rootfs ID:/ size: 30G used: 7.6G (28%) fs: ext4
ID:/home size: 9.8G used: 5.8G (63%) fs: ext4 ID:swap-1 size: 4.19GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap
Info: Processes 159 Uptime 11:50 Memory 1165.4/3948.0MB Runlevel 2 Client Shell inxi 1.4.23
The upgrade went smoothly and quickly. As far as I could check it, everything was working pretty welll. Maybe there was a little too much transparency on the Cinnamon (and Minty menus). The only thing which went wrong for me is about
brightness settings.
Since last year, I use a
.nvidia-settings-rc configuration file which contains my brightnes settings. Without it, I suffer from too much glare. However, and even if the nvidia-settings utility used with UP6 looks exactly the same as the one I used with UP5, this time it did not load the configuration file.
I tried to launch with a terminal and got this:
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nvidia-settings
ERROR: Error parsing configuration file '/home/roger/.nvidia-settings-rc' on
line 50: '0/XVideoTextureBrightness=0' (Unrecognized attribute name).
Instead of trying to suppress the offending line and see what happens, I then did some mistakes of my own, found myself stuck without X and had to come back to UP5 using Clonezilla. So, for now, I cannot test it anymore. However, I would be interested to know if this is a shared issue.
Here is the configuration file I currently use under UP5 and which does not work under UP6:
[spoiler]#
# /home/roger/.nvidia-settings-rc
#
# Configuration file for nvidia-settings - the NVIDIA X Server Settings utility
# Generated on Mon Dec 10 19:34:59 2012
#
# ConfigProperties:
RcFileLocale = C
ToolTips = Yes
DisplayStatusBar = Yes
SliderTextEntries = Yes
IncludeDisplayNameInConfigFile = No
ShowQuitDialog = Yes
Timer = Thermal_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
Timer = PowerMizer_Monitor_(GPU_0),Yes,1000
# Attributes:
0/CursorShadow=0
0/CursorShadowAlpha=64
0/CursorShadowRed=0
0/CursorShadowGreen=0
0/CursorShadowBlue=0
0/CursorShadowXOffset=4
0/CursorShadowYOffset=2
0/SyncToVBlank=0
0/LogAniso=0
0/FSAA=0
0/TextureSharpen=0
0/TextureClamping=0
0/AllowFlipping=1
0/FSAAAppControlled=1
0/LogAnisoAppControlled=1
0/OpenGLImageSettings=1
0/FSAAAppEnhanced=0
0/RedBrightness=-0.488372
0/GreenBrightness=-0.488372
0/BlueBrightness=-0.488372
0/RedContrast=0.000000
0/GreenContrast=0.000000
0/BlueContrast=0.000000
0/RedGamma=1.000000
0/GreenGamma=1.000000
0/BlueGamma=1.000000
0/DigitalVibrance[DFP-0]=0
0/ColorSpace[DFP-0]=0
0/ColorRange[DFP-0]=0
0/XVideoTextureBrightness=0
0/XVideoTextureContrast=0
0/XVideoTextureHue=0
0/XVideoTextureSaturation=0
0/XVideoTextureSyncToVBlank=1
0/XVideoSyncToDisplay=65536 [/spoiler]
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