Comment 288 for bug 415023

The easiest way is to create a freedos USB disk with Unetbootin. Two clicks
and done.
It solved the flickering and the scalling problem of my N280 Wind U123.
Unfortunable, it is now only tree levels from 1Ghz to 1.67 and not four from
800 to 1.67Ghz.

Regards,
Rodrigo Borges

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Jorge Juan <email address hidden> wrote:

> Flashing with flash.bat worked for me. Now I have 5 bright levels when
> using Fn+F5 or Fn+F6: brightness changes two steps with each key press.
>
> I mostly followed the steps in #265 but used my SystemrescueCD to boot
> freedos. You can have SystemrescueCD together with a standard Ubuntu
> install image following this post:
>
> http://tinkabit.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/howto-create-a-ubuntu-system-
> rescue-cd-usb-startup-disk/<http://tinkabit.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/howto-create-a-ubuntu-system-rescue-cd-usb-startup-disk/>
>
> jorge.
>
> --
> brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023
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>
> Status in Gnome Powermanager: Unknown
> Status in KDE Base Workspace: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> Status in “hal-info” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “kdebase-workspace” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “xfce4-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “hal-info” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “kdebase-workspace” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Lucid: Triaged
> Status in “xfce4-power-manager” source package in Lucid: Invalid
> Status in Fedora: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> Versions : karmic up to date (08-17-09) with gnome-power-manager version
> 2.27.5-0ubuntu2
>
> What should happen : brightness should not flash.
>
> What happens :
>
> Brightness changing seems broken on my MSI wind U 100.
>
> First in GDM it starts flashing for a good 30 seconds and then the same
> problem happened when the Gnome session begins.
>
> Whenever I try to manually change the brightness a bit too fast (using
> the sliders or the keyboard) it start flashing again.
>
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