@ bjn:- Good, good. So; you're 'sorted'. Yay! Credit must go to you, too, y'know.....for sticking with us until we found the solution. We get no end of newbies who, at the first sign of a problem that needs a wee bit of work, disappear into cyberspace, never to be seen again. But then you do have p...

@ozsouth, I set it at .6. I also adjusted the colour temperature with the Redshift that Mike Walsh posted, and my screen is now very comfortable. My only concern is the battery. Despite the adjustments to the display, the brightness and actual_brightness are at 255, which is still max_brightness, an...

@ozsouth, thank you so much. I will experiment and report back later.

Editing to add that i mean 'later' as in (my) tomorrow.

@ozsouth, the screen brightened at the first command, darkened at the second.

@ozsouth root# xrandr Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1600 x 900, maximum 16384 x 16384 eDP connected primary 1600x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 382mm x 214mm 1600x900 60.19*+ 40.13 1440x900 60.19 1280x800 60.19 1280x720 60.19 1024x768 60.19 800x600 60.19 640x480 60.19 HDMI...

@ozsouth, thank you for not giving up. :) I tried out the command in Bionicpup. I ran the command after I'd made the adjustments I described in the previous post. root# xrandr --output default --gamma .8:.8:.8 warning: output default not found; ignoring xrandr: Need crtc to set gamma on. I have no c...

@bigpup, thank you for suggesting Bionicpup64. :) The brightness keys don’t work, but monitor gamma calibration does. The screen still wasn’t quite right -- applications with light backgrounds like Abiword were still too bright, even though the display was quite dark, if that makes sense. But the rs...

@ozsouth, I installed the pet. No joy. The xrandr command reported 'Gamma size is 0'. @soniabu, I 've tried that type of xbacklight command to no avail, albeit in Tahr and UpupBB. :) @Mike Walsh, worst-case scenario, I'll just have to mostly use Lubuntu, my favorite 'buntu, on this machine. I'm not ...

@Philh, I tried Ubuntu Mate 18.04.1 64-bit, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.1 32-bit, Lubuntu 18.04 32-bit, also Mint Cinnamon 19 32-bit and Mint Mate 19 64-bit. These all handled brightness effortlessly. Xenialpup 32-bit had the same brightness problem, though. @bigpup, yes, I do understand that I need to set ...

I've just experimented with the 'xset dpms force off' command. It does turn the backlight off completely, but then it comes back on by itself about a second later.

Hello, Mike, thank you for your assistance. I tried the rshift script in Tahr. I got the little tray icon and was able to make manual adjustments, but they didn't change the screen. Ditto with the ScreenControl pet. I tried the rshift 64-bit version in UpupBB 18.05 PAE, but nothing happened when I c...

I deleted all save files on the hard disk, reformatted the USB, isobooted Tahr and Upup from Slacko, and made the change to the kernel line of each in menu.lst. Then I booted up. Tahr -- brightness, max_brightness, bl_power, type, uevent files all blank. No change in files in acpi_video0 folder or o...

@bigpup, I already tried that. It doesn't work. :) @Philh, I typed out a long, detailed post to you, but I got knocked offline. Long story short, editing the menu.list, saving and rebooting resulted in seeing incremental changes in the values in the brightness files in my acpi_video0 folder when I u...

I have the same files and folders as in your screen shot, but my power folder doesn't have a sym link. The actual brightness, bl power, brightness, maximum brightness, uevent and type files are all empty. And they don't have the dot/round thingy (please excuse my ignorance) on the top left corner of...

Maybe this will help: Pup-SysInfo Hardware Report (Summary), Fri 9 Nov 2018 Current Time: 21:45:50 System Uptime: 2 min Load Average: 0.50 0.22 0.08 ====> BASE SYSTEM <==== PC Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP Pavilion Notebook Motherboard Vendor: HP Product Name: 80B0 BIOS Vendor: American Megatren...

Thank you for trying to help, Terry. I don't think it's Intel-based. It's AMD, I think.

I have the same problem and would be grateful for any help. I am using Tahr 6.0.5 No PAE from a USB running on a 64-bit Windows 10 HP Pavilion Notebook. The function keys to control brightness aren't working, and the screen remains at 100% brightness at all times. Extremely uncomfortable at night, n...

I added some more resources for multilingual use here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 427#985427

That's a very useful resource, oui. Just to add a few more, if I may: Online multilingual keyboards: https://www.branah.com/ https://gate2home.com/ https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/ To learn how to use CJK keyboards or romanization: https://www.sayjack.com/asian-keyboard/ Korean IME extension for ...

Maybe TOP could help with the reading and typing, if all else fails? I discovered it only a few days ago. Printing might be the biggest problem. It's worth a try. http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=44341 Maybe this might come in handy: https://www.branah.com/korean There's also the Kor...