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Old 04-25-2010, 07:03 AM   #1
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Brightness keys not working in Dell Inspiron Laptop with Fedora 12 OS


Dear All,

I have installed Fedora12 on Dell Inspiron laptop. Here are my key details of my laptop.

<Fn + F4 > ---- For decreasing Brightness
<Fn + F5 > ---- For increasing Brightness
<Fn + F2 > ---- To enable Bluetooth

I am able to enable bluetooth by pressing <Fn + F2>, But I am not able to increase OR decrease brightness of my laptop screen.

I have attached keymap of my laptop by the output of
Code:
xmodmap -pke
Please find the attachment keymap.txt.

Thanks in advance..
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File Type: txt keymap.txt (9.1 KB, 33 views)

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Old 04-25-2010, 01:03 PM   #2
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what 3d chip is in it and did you install / configure it's driver?
 
Old 04-26-2010, 09:44 AM   #3
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what 3d chip is in it and did you install / configure it's driver?
Dear John,

Many Thanks for your sincere reply.

May I know how to check my 3d chip ? Also how to install its driver ?

Thanks again.
 
Old 04-26-2010, 09:46 AM   #4
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Dear John,

Many Thanks for your sincere reply.

May I know how to check my 3d chip ?
You look at the manual that came with the machine. What did you purchase when you bought it?
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Also how to install its driver ?
Thanks again.
That will depend on what driver(s) you need, based on what chip you have.
 
Old 04-26-2010, 01:03 PM   #5
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Thanks for assisting me TbOne

I searched a user guide given with my DELL laptop. But I could not able to find 3d chip in the guide

Here is my entire laptop configuration. Hope you may find it easily..
Laptop Configuration

Also I have Only Linux installed on this machine. This is n series DELL laptop without Windows 7.

Could you please help me in finding out what is my 3d chip ?

Thanks again...

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if you do not what is in the computer how do you know if all the hardware is 100% linux compatible

that is the very very very first step
your hardware ?????
 
  


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