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    keyboard brightness control not functioning

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by siang_rd, Jun 29, 2011.

  1. siang_rd

    siang_rd Notebook Enthusiast

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    My F4 and F5 brightness control keys suddenly cant use to control my brightness anymore. Anyone know any possible reason?

    Thank you.
     
    siang_rd, Jun 29, 2011
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    Unfortunitely not, there's no real solution at the moment. What I can tell you though is that it seems to be an AMD driver issue, because if you switch to the IGP the problem disappears. Hopefully Dell will provide us with a fix soon enough...
     
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    They did, it's called GTX 580m. J/K :D
     
    katalin_2003, Jun 29, 2011
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