Help with two issues, please.(SOLVED)

[TNT1]

I installed Ultimate Edition 2.8 on two brand new Samsung notebooks. Everything works fine, including wireless, and built in camera, however two issues have arisen. If I start the machine on battery only, the BIOS, grub and splash screens are fine, as soon as I login, the brightness drops to a level where I cannot see the screen. The fn buttons to adjust brightness work, and you can see the brightness increasing, but only slightly. I mean it has the full range, but seems to start off too dark to make any difference. If I start the machine plugged in, login and then remove the power cable, it's all good. Please advise. I will post lspci and so on this evening.

Oh, and on this brightness issue, it did the exact same thing when I spun up mint10KDE, but was fine on win7 Ultimate which it came with pere-installed. It's a nVidia graphics card with the proprietary driverr installed and enabled.

The second issue is that I cannot change the default cursors. Please help.

[Uffe]

Hi
I don't have a labtop handy right now, but I think you possibly can bennefit from adding "Brightnes-panelprogram" (thats what I presume it's called, my menus is in danish ) to the panel.

[pclinuxguru]

I know this one, had to make the same fix many times on laptops.

Give me a min to find the code. BRB

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sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

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Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and add "acpi_osi=Linux" so it looks like this GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux". Save the file. Now run update-grub2.

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Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=vendor splash    "- if needed (option 2)"

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Change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="acpi_osi=Linux"

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sudo update-grub2

That should fix it for good.

[TNT1]

Perfect, Thanks, I knew it must be an acpi line to edit somewhere.

And the cursor issue?

[pclinuxguru]

That one is easy

right click the compiz icon at the top panel.

Select window decorator - select GTK

system/preferences/appearance

Select customize theme and change pointer set.

Now go back and set it back to compiz for window decorator and now pointers are set global.

[TNT1]

Thanks for the help. I'm a long time Ubuntu with Gnome and Fedora with KDE user, but my parents wanted Ultimate Edition on their new laptops. Thanks again.

[pclinuxguru]

My pleasure

[billhedrick]

Just rebooted, well last night, looked at the other GUIs on 2.9, and KDE actually looks workable finally!