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How can I find a light sensor to adapt my monitor's brightness to the room?
Where can I find a standalone light sensor that updates the brightness of my screen to match the ambient light level in realtime for Windows 7? My monitor does not have a sensor. I had the idea ...
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Turn off display on macbook 1,1 running ubuntu server 11.10
I am just getting started with my own server and thought I could put my old black macbook to some use.
I installed Ubuntu server 11.10 as the only operating system and everything has been working out ...
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Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop - screen doesn't work: no power, brightness is 0%
There is a laptop - Dell Inspiron 1545.
A problem is a brightness of a screen is 0% (when BIOS starts, Windows works - all time). I can barely see a picture on a screen at a big angle (it seems like ...
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Laptop screen brightness doesn't change when i change it using windows power options
I have a Hasee FU505 laptop it came with a Linux Red flag OS, i removed the Linux and installed a Windows seven instead, the Hasee website provide drivers only for windows vista, i downloaded these ...
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Brightness Indicator
What software can I use for Windows 7 to show an on-screen progress-bar notification of the brightness when I change the brightness of my screen?
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Display brightness
When the power cord is removed from a laptop, the display brightness goes down slightly (very slightly, not a complete "notch").
The interesting thing is, I don't remember XP doing this, it seems to ...
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LCD BENQ monitor brightness
I have BENQ 15 inch LCD monitor. When I turn on monitor, contrast or brightness dialog is automatically displayed on screen and I cannot remove this dialog. If I increase brightness, automatically ...
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Screen Brightness not permanent
I own a Lenovo Thinkpad SL400 and I dual boot Fedora 15 AND Windows 7 on my laptop. I am facing a problem with my fedora installation:
Whenever I reboot the computer, my screen brightness goes back ...
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Ideal brightness and contrast value in LCD monitor?
I'm using 19 inch LCD monitor. The distance between me and monitor is around 80 cm.
For this distance, what is the value of brightness and contrast for normal eye sight?
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Can I fine-tune my screen brightness?
My laptop is Lenovo T400, and my OS is Ubuntu 10.10. I change the brightness of my screen by pressing the FN key and one of the two keys for increasing/decreasing brightness.
The brightness I feel ...
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Very dark webcam on new HP DV7
I just got my new HP DV7 6135dx about a week after it came out and when I was playing around with the webcam a few days after, it worked great.
But then all of a sudden it went dark. Not black, but ...
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Windows 7 brightness slider suddenly gone
Brightness slider in power plan settings recently disappeared.
How to fix it?
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Utility to dim laptop screen beyond the minimum
I usually just use Fn + Left or Fn + Right to adjust my screen's brightness but the minimum settings are still too bright for me (especially when I'm working at night). I tried going through the Power ...
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My Philips Meridian 191EL2 LED monitor's brightness resets to 90 on power up
It is the inbuilt monitor menu. It just doesn't save what I set. How can I control the brightness from OS. I am on windows 7.
nvidia xfx 9500gt graphics card installed.
Thanks for help.
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Gamma won't restore to original settings after exiting 3d application
I have adjusted my gamma, brightness and contrast using the calibration tool provided by Windows 7. Games typically require slightly different settings in my experience, and so I tend to adjust the ...
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set brightness and other attributes for laptop using ati radeon driver from ubuntu 11.04 repository
I am using ubuntu 11.04 on dell studio laptop with ati 5470 card. I have set the brightness to a level say 47%. But Each time I login brightness has already become maximum and I have to adjust using ...
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Do anti-glare filters exist for a 24 inch LCD monitor? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Are there effective Anti-glare screens?
A family member finds a new 24" LCD monitor too bright (painful) to look at even on the lowest brightness/contrast settings.
She ...
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How do I get better control over screen brightness
I bought a Dell Inspiron (which runs Windows 7) and they seem to have done something to the brightness controls because it seems to be more coarse than I remember from my previous HP Pavilion (EDIT: ...
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Should LCD Brightness Match Environmental Lighting?
I have a new T410 laptop and ever since I've been using it, I've discovered that my eyes don't stress as much when I adjust the brightness to my environmental lighting. For example, during the day, I ...
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Is there a way to display a real-time image histogram of all or part of what my monitor is displaying?
I am trying to adjust brightness/contrast in photo/video editing software that does not provide image histograms. What I would like is a piece of windows software that displays a real-time histogram ...
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MacBook Air screen is too bright even on the lowest setting
Is there a tweak, hack, or piece of software that can adjust the brightness of the MacBook Air's screen below the settings that MacOS X allows by default?
In low light the lowest brightness setting ...
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Is there a way to increase the screen brightness of a macbook running snow leopard beyond what apple lets you?
Any way to tweak it? I'm guessing no, but I wouldn't have ever thought of overclocking a cpu would work either...
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Some of Windows 7 brightness sliders dissapeared
The sliders from Mobility Center and below the power plans list disappeared after some certain time/event, but Windows still can control the brightness of my laptop (VAIO VPCEB1J8E) through either by ...
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screen brightness dimmer [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Adjust screen brightness automaticly at night.
Can you recommend a software to dim laptop screen brightness-contrast easily an/or predefined values?
Thank you
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Is there a work around to configure brightness or color on a DisplayLink monitor?
I run 3 monitors in addition to my laptop display at work - two of the monitors are using DisplayLink adapters. I've always thought that all my displays were too bright (and possibly give me ...
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How to change brightness on linux desktop through the command line?
I have a Debian Linux desktop. I want to change the screen's brightness without pressing the brightness button of my monitor. How can I do this? is this possible in command line or is there an ...
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Brightness adjustment not shown in Windows Mobility Center on HP Pavillion laptop
The Windows Mobility Center (displayed when you press +X) normally shows a slider control for adjusting the brightness of the display on laptops. On my older Dell laptop this worked fine, but on my ...
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Backlight control in Eee PC 1015PEM
When I boot my Linux with acpi_osi=Linux, I can control backlight brightness from almost_zero to moderately_bright. (Actually, the maximum revolves around the brightness level that is set before Linux ...
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How do I change the brightness and contrast of YouTube videos on-the-fly?
I'm tired of different video black levels which take down the quality of the video.
Some examples, depending on your brightness level you might or might not see the difference:
If you can't see ...
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How to make backlight in Acer Aspire One even more dim? [abandoned]
Like almost anywhere the minimal backlight level is too bright on Acer Aspire One.
On Acer Extensa 5220 I managed to gain more low-level control for backlight, but here the only controller's register ...
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Is there a way to make my laptop screen dimmer than the lowest setting in Ubuntu 10.04?
I would like to make my laptop screen dimmer than my current available lowest setting.
Is there a way to accomplish this in Ubuntu 10.04 by editing some config file?
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Is the laptop screen ...
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Brightness controls not adjusting the brightness in ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on hp dm3t notebook
I picked up an hp dm3t laptop with intel HD graphics and installed ubuntu 10.10 64 bit on it. It works great -- the only problem is that the brightness controls on the keyboard don't work. The ...
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The brightness keeps on increasing and decreasing - is there something wrong with my laptop screen?
My laptop screen brightness just keeps on increasing and decreasing in a loop.
Is there some setting that I have messed up? I am sure the machine should be okay, because it is pretty new still.
I am ...
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Can I turn down the screen brightness on my MacBook Pro any further?
I sometimes use my MacBook Pro with all the lights off in the room. I turn the screen brightness down to its lowest setting (and turn off the automatic brightness adjustment), but it’s still a bit too ...
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Laptop Screen Brightness
What controls the brightness levels in a laptop? Is it the BIOS?
Is it possible to modify the brightness levels to have a custom brightness at each level?
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How to get backlight on my Acer Extansa 5220 laptop to lower than minimum brightness level?
Minimum backlight level is not as dim as I want. I want to be able to tune it to arbitrarily low level, for example to be hardly visible in a dark room (but still visible).
In my digital camera I've ...
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Tool to adjust monitor's backlight brightness in Windows
Do you know of any tool for Windows that let me adjust the backlight brightness of a monitor?
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HP Envy screen brightness .. stuck
once in a while, the screen brightness stops responding to any reason, and stays on full brightness..
for those of you that have HP Envy, you know what this means... battery suicide.
the FN+* ...
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How to change to brightness of an external display on a macbook pro running OSX 10.6
I am using a macbook pro running OSX 10.6 snow leopard.
In System Preferences/Displays/Display, I can change the brightness of the macbook's screen. However, this option is not available for the ...
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Screen gets stuck in a dim setting after waking up
I've got a laptop that I recently upgraded from Vista to Windows 7. It works a lot better now for a lot of things, but there's one problem I've had happen a few times that never happened under Vista.
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Laptop screen brightness stuck
I can no longer adjust the brightness of my laptop screen, it's stuck at the lowest.
In Linux, the brightness adjustment keys (Fn + F4/F5) still work, since a brightness popup shows and the meter bar ...
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LCD problems: brightness / contrast blown out, can't bring up menu
Yesterday, when I turned on my LCD monitor, the colors were very very bright. It looks as if someone had gone into the monitor on-screen-display and turned up brightness & contrast all the way to ...
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Adjust output Brightness/Gamma/Colors in Gnome
We have a desktop system running Ubuntu 8.04.4, and it is connected to a standard desktop LCD monitor. Unfortunately, in 8.04.4, the brightness of the image is cranked way up. It appears to be a ...
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Optimal brightness for laptop screen while on AC power
Does using the laptop screen at the maximum brightness level while on AC power have any disadvantages? May it decrease the lifespan of LCD screen, or convey more heat and cause more heating of laptop ...
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Power scheme faulty
I use a laptop. When I take the power cable out to run on batteries, the screen darkens, as it is no longer so bright, to save on battery power.
When I put the power cable back in, the screen ...
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How to disable the light sensor on a Vaio laptop
I just got a new Vaio laptop. It is great.
However, the ambient light sensor dims the screen brightness and prevents me from changing it.
Is there a way to disable the ambient light sensor and go ...
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Brightness Controls not working on HP Dm3t
i have an HP dm3t notebook which normally comes with windows 7.
after some time i figured out how to install Windows XP on it.
but now i am facing a problem that the brightess controls dont work so i ...
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How do you stop Linux from re-setting the display brightness?
After manually setting the display brightness on my laptop, the system re-sets the value. If the laptop is plugged in, the value is set to full brightness; if it is not plugged in, it is set to ...
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How do I get my laptop's screen brightness settings back?
From when I bought it up until yesterday, my laptop would dim the screen automatically if you let it sit for long enough, and then if you hit a key or moved the mouse, the brightness would jump back ...
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Do you know of any ways to effectively manage a triple screen setup brightness?
I use a desktop with multiple monitors
I have tried F.lux and it is a great app for changing the color from 3500k-6500k... but doesn't adjust screen brightness. (I recommend you try it)
I've ...
