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I have a laptop with the newest Ubuntu-version (12.04). I want to use the Fn Keys to adjust the brightness of my screen, but it doesnt work. Normally it should be Fn+Left/Right. However adjusting the volume with Fn+Up/Fn works fine.

I already searched for a few soulutions, for example tried to replace in the Grub-File

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=vendor"

or

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash cpi_osi=Linux"

but it all doesn't work for my laptop. How can I fix this problem?

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Couldn't change graphics with Fn keys on my Acer laptop.

This helped me (notice a little bit different parameter), added to /etc/default/grub:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash pcie_aspm=force acpi_backlight=vendor"

Then runupdate-grub and reboot.

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

Eric Carvalho
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I had exactly the same problem running ubuntu 13.10 on an Acer laptop. Editing the grub file enabled me to change the brightness through the control panel, but not with the FN+ left/right arrow.

It turned out that the evildoer in my case was TLP (https://github.com/linrunner/TLP). I solved the issue by editing /etc/default/tlp and changing 

PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC=performance

to 

PCIE_ASPM_ON_AC=default
samover
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