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Monthly Archives: November 2011

Enabling brightness controls on an HP Envy 17 under Fedora 16

I’ve recently set up Fedora 16 on my laptop, and all has been smooth, save for the brightness switches. The on-screen display would show up when I used the fn-F2/fn-F3 key combinations, but the brightness just wouldn’t change. Additionally, the brightness was stuck at the lowest level. Turns out there’s a pretty easy fix in [...]