[Newbie] - Caught exception on dellLcdBrightness

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:21:44PM -0300, Leonel Gayard wrote:
> An Error occurred. The Error message is:
> Unsupported SMI call.
> 
> I'm using a Vostro 1000 with a Turion 64 CPU. It is a dual boot on
> Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04; I've been trying to use the script
> dellLcdBrightness because the brightness keys are behaving strangely
> on Ubuntu (they work fine under winXP).
> 
> Is that because I'm on a 64 bit kernel ? What could cause that error ?
> Any ideas on where to look for ?

Not all of the newest systems use this same interface.  It sounds like
Dell Quickset for Windows learned the new tricks for these systems,
but we haven't investigated the same for Linux yet.

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux