Inspiron 1501 cannot adjust brightness after BIOS upgrade (Ubuntu 7.10)

Question

after upgrading BIOS 1.7 to 2.1.6, Brightness adjustment Fn-keys are not working anymore. Does someone experience the same issue?

cirilobeto · Answer

what about in bios?  can you change your brightness in bios?

ufff · Answer

Actually, that's a common problem. The functional keys work fine in BIOS and Windows (e.g. Vista HB), but under Linux they don't work. Unofficial suggestion is to downgrade BIOS to 1.7 version :-(

ufff · Answer

So, what? Anything've changed with the issue?

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Inspiron 1501 cannot adjust brightness after BIOS upgrade (Ubuntu 7.10)

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