| zLoSteR | hi | 10:53 |
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| zLoSteR | i need little help | 10:53 |
| Kirrus | Hi zLoSteR | 10:56 |
| Kirrus | !ask | 10:56 |
| ubotu | Please don't ask to ask a question, ask the question (all on ONE line, so others can read and follow it easily). If anyone knows the answer they will most likely answer. :-) | 10:56 |
| Kirrus | !support | 10:56 |
| ubotu | the official ubuntu support channel is #ubuntu. Also see http://ubuntu.com/support and http://ubuntuforums.org | 10:56 |
| Kirrus | I'd reccomend you go to #ubuntu, as this channel is not used whilst there are no scheduled sessions active. | 10:57 |
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| drgonzo00000 | hey | 20:32 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, The misleading part is that you have to remember that it is the shell which writes to the file when you use '>' and the shell is still running as "you", not root | 20:33 |
| drgonzo00000 | I'm the only user. Shouldn't I be root by default? | 20:33 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, so even though you are running "echo" as root you are not writing to the file as root | 20:33 |
| drgonzo00000 | okay | 20:34 |
| Jordan_U | Most definitely not :) ( That is the main reason XP and below is so insecure ) | 20:34 |
| drgonzo00000 | so how do i become root | 20:34 |
| drgonzo00000 | use the su command? | 20:34 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, You don't need to, the standard solution is to pipe the output to "tee" and have it write to the file | 20:35 |
| drgonzo00000 | so how would it look | 20:35 |
| Jordan_U | so you would run something like: echo "whatever" | sudo tee /path/to/file | 20:35 |
| Jordan_U | That will also print whatever you are echoing to the terminal BTW | 20:36 |
| drgonzo00000 | echo 22 > | sudo tee /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness | 20:36 |
| drgonzo00000 | ? | 20:36 |
| Jordan_U | Looks correct to me | 20:36 |
| Jordan_U | Wait , no | 20:36 |
| drgonzo00000 | let me try it | 20:36 |
| drgonzo00000 | nm | 20:36 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, Get rid of the '>' | 20:37 |
| drgonzo00000 | okay | 20:37 |
| drgonzo00000 | is that because it is redundant | 20:37 |
| drgonzo00000 | because the pipe command takes the place of it? | 20:37 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, it's because '>' is what you use to tell the shell to write to a file, but instead you want the shell to pass the output to 'tee' | 20:38 |
| drgonzo00000 | it's still not adjusting my brightness | 20:39 |
| drgonzo00000 | it just prints the # after i try it | 20:39 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, What do you mean by your last comment? | 20:40 |
| drgonzo00000 | echo 22 | sudo tee /proc/acpi/video/VGA/LCD/brightness | 20:40 |
| drgonzo00000 | next line: 22 | 20:40 |
| drgonzo00000 | and I'm back at the prompt | 20:40 |
| drgonzo00000 | and my brightness is not adjusted | 20:41 |
| Jordan_U | That is normal, it means that the file was written to successfully ( though unfortunately writing to that file does not change your brightness apparently :( ) | 20:42 |
| drgonzo00000 | any other suggestions? | 20:42 |
| drgonzo00000 | the brightness applet slides, but also that doesn't adjust my brightness either | 20:43 |
| Jordan_U | DreamThief, What model laptop ( I assume this is a laptop, correct ? ) | 20:43 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, ^^ ( used wrong nick ) | 20:46 |
| drgonzo00000 | i have a Toshiba A215-S5818 | 20:47 |
| drgonzo00000 | with a Radeon x1200 card | 20:47 |
| drgonzo00000 | it wouldn't be a big deal if my battery lasted more than 2.5 hours, but unfortunately it doesn't | 20:55 |
| drgonzo00000 | Jordan_U: any suggestions? | 21:00 |
| Jordan_U | !info fnfxd | drgonzo00000 possibly this | 21:01 |
| ubotu | drgonzo00000 possibly this: fnfxd (source: fnfx): ACPI and hotkey daemon for Toshiba laptops. In component universe, is optional. Version 0.3-12ubuntu2 (gutsy), package size 20 kB, installed size 128 kB (Only available for i386) | 21:01 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, BTW, I was just about to say that, without you prompting me :) | 21:01 |
| drgonzo00000 | unfortunately, I've already looked into that program. It won't run on my computer because I have the Phoenix bios instead of the Toshiba bios | 21:02 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, I was afraid you would say that | 21:03 |
| drgonzo00000 | yep | 21:03 |
| drgonzo00000 | it's quite an unfortunate situation | 21:03 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, Do you have the latest BIOS update? | 21:04 |
| drgonzo00000 | yep | 21:04 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, Have you read the exact same page I have :) | 21:05 |
| Jordan_U | http://slu.ms/articles/toshiba-linux-and-lcd-brightness-2 | 21:05 |
| drgonzo00000 | I have looked at that page actually | 21:06 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, Have you tried the "Vista specific" updates if there are any? | 21:07 |
| drgonzo00000 | My computer was updated before I got rid of Vista | 21:07 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, My guess is that they had a driver hack around a bad ACPI implementation and that the reason it worked for that person in Linux after the update is that they got *some* sense and fixed their ACPI implementation rather than porting their hack to Vista | 21:08 |
| drgonzo00000 | that would make sense | 21:09 |
| drgonzo00000 | it was posted a year ago though so I should have gotten the update as well being that I just bought my laptop about a month ago | 21:12 |
| Jordan_U | drgonzo00000, Did brightness work in Vista for you? | 21:14 |
| drgonzo00000 | not sure...only kept vista for 3 days | 21:14 |
| drgonzo00000 | Jordan_U: thanks for trying to help me | 21:18 |
| drgonzo00000 | I gotta go write an essay now | 21:19 |
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