No brightness control on Acer laptop

[Nikolay Tychina]

There were few "Fixing your DSDT" threads on ubuntu forums and somewhere
else.
Unfortunately I don't understand this aml language too :-)
You could try ACPI Specifications on http://acpi.info



2009/5/24 Székvölgyi Péter <ghostp at mcss.hu>

> Nikolay Tychina wrote:
>
>> Did you try to fix your dsdt (it has only one error, mine has 7 :-) )?
>> Also you can download original & fixed dsdt from
>> http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?manufacturer=ACER
>> and fix yours by analogy.
>>
>> Did you try http://code.google.com/p/acpi-amilo/
>>
>>
> I tested it, only change my wireless radio switch is default to off.
>
> From http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/view.php?manufacturer=ACER
> i downloaded ACER Extensa 4002 and 4001 dsdt, i compile it and reboot
> the brightness control works corectly, but i haven't battery monitor,
> thermal
> control, etc. I saw the original dsdt from "acpidump" and it has an error,
> like
> the dsdt from google source.
>
> I see the source, but this time i never programming in this language, so i
> didn't know what is wrong. Anyone has a link or anything how can i learn?
>
> Thanks,
> Peter
>
>