https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668694
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668694#c7
--- Comment #7 from Ricardo Cornet 2011-02-11 20:26:20 UTC ---
xrandr Does not work neither on 11.4 Mx nor Kubuntu 10.04.
xrandr --prop does not detect the backlight, since it seems to rely on Xorg
info. The xrandr man page defers in preference to the the xbacklight utility.
since the property is not listed with --prop, it fails when called with a "bad
name" error.
I checked in Kubuntu 10.04, And xrandr equally does not detect the backlight,
as well as xbacklight. But KDE and the overall system works just fine with the
backlight.
In my experience Acer laptos are usually of better or equal quality that HP,
Dell, etc. And from those most hardware issues I found were with HP, Dell, etc
than with Acer. Opensuse in particular broke things with the forceful
introduction of radeonhd which conflicted with older radeon-ati driver on ati
cards giving a "not supported" status to opensuse since 11.2. WHile
successfully operating through *buntu 9.10 to 10.04 as far as I can remember. I
usually used opensuse on laptops until 11.2 broke things with ati on-board
cards. So the "flaky" comment feels out of place in my opinion and personal
experience.
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