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I cannot change the screen brightness

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here's my problem:

Ever since I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on my computer I haven't been able to change the screen brightness, it was always set to the maximum. I did take a look at this post:

Decrease Backlight Below Minimum

And it helped me resolved the issue with the unbearable brightness, however one problem persists: I cannot change it through "Brightness & Lock" or the function buttons (F2 and F3), when I press the buttons, the animation shows up but nothing happens.
I tried the following:

http://www.refreshit.info/2012/08/solved-brightness-increase-and-decrease.html

It did nothing...

If it helps:

I have an HP-dv6 6185la, it has an ATI Radeon 6770M HD card and an Intel HD Integrated Graphics Card

It only detects the "Intel® Sandybridge Mobile"

Thanks in advance.

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answered 3 Years ago bewre · Accepted Answer

What worked for me was to change the /etc/default/grub file as follows:

Open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and type sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Find the line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and modify it to one of the following:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

or

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor" (try this if the first one doesn't work)

Save and close gedit.

Then type sudo update-grub

Reboot your pc.

EDIT

As from Ubuntu 13.10, this did not solve the problem for me on a Toshiba laptop. I needed one extra step for the problem to be solved.

I had to create an xorg.conf file in /etc/X11/ with the following contents:

Section "Device"

       Identifier      "Configured Video Device"

       Driver          "intel"

       Option          "Backlight"       "intel_backlight"

EndSection

#

Section "Monitor"

       Identifier      "Configured Monitor"

EndSection

#

Section "Screen"

       Identifier      "Default Screen"

       Monitor         "Configured Monitor"

       Device          "Configured Video Device"

EndSection

WARNING!! Getting the file wrong or if this configuration is not compatible with your hardware, might end up with an unbootable system! It happened to me.

In that case, you'll have to delete (or rename) the file, but to do so requires either booting from a liveUSB or liveDVD (the simplest way) or booting in recovery mode, making the Ubuntu partition rewritable and then delete the offending xorg.conf file.

EDIT2

Starting with kernel 4.4, the toshiba backlight device is blacklisted and doesn't appear any longer thus rendering these workarounds redundant.