Ubuntu 10.04 won't let me control the brightness and I have random flashes on screen.

I have an intel chipset. Is there any way I can get this fixed?

 

My guess is this is more to do with compatibility with your specific model of laptop?
I did a quick search on Ubuntu forums and there are quite a few topics related to brightness controls.
http://ubuntuforums.org/search.php?searchid=72667354
Also there`s a tut at the Mint forum which may be of some help?
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=45271&p=269871&hilit=brightness#p269871

 

What do you mean by "won't let me control the brightness"? gnome-power-preferences does not work? The brightness settings won't stick? Your keyboard brightness controls don't work?

 

Add Xswat ppa at https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/ archive/x-updates This will update your intel driver to the latest and see if the issue goes away, I have installed Lucid on two laptops and one desktop with Intel and so far no issues.

 

A friend of mine helped with the brightness issue with a command I had to type which is shown in the Mint forum so that is fixed. I could not control the brightness at all nothing I did through FN and F5 to F6 could work neither with the power manager. But thats all good now. Still have some flashing problem which I'm waiting for an update for.

 

Been there, done that. Try adding i915.powersave=0 as a boot option, that *should* fix the flashing.

 

Where do I type that in again and where in it do I place it? I forget the command.

 

Edit /etc/default/grub as root and add it to the default kernel options. (Should be the line containing the word "quiet", add it inside the quotes.)