X220 display too bright on 0 with intel drivers

Hi, I installed newest intel drivers for intergrated graphics card. It seems that all backlighting levels are stronger than used to be and particularly 0 level si still quite strong. Original driver on 0 level seemed to turn of backlighting completely. When I use laptop in complete darkness it's quite hard on my eyes.

Do you know if there's some way to lower backlighting, alternatively turn it off? of course besides installing original drivers (which is obvious). Thanks.

 

I expect that's an adjustent Lenovo made in their version of the driver.

S

 

There should be a symbol on your keyboard, on my T410 it's the Home and End key, that looks like a sun with an up and down arrow. Press and hold the Fn key and try hitting End a few times (the sun with the down arrow) to lower the brightness.

 

Yes, of course, this is the way I control brightness. But it won't go below 0 which is still too strong in darkness.

 

how's the brightness when you are in the BIOS? you could try rolling back to your previous video drivers.

 

The 2361 (intel) is significantly brighter than 2321/2342 (lenovo).

I noted that too and noted it in another thread. Everyone thought I was nuts saying I thought 0 was bright. I realized after I rolled back the driver that 0 on the lenovo driver is crazy dark.

 

Yeah it happens.

On my T400 with switchable graphics before installing drivers, the lowest brightness Windows lets me use is fairly bright.

After installing, level 0 becomes very dark. That said, using level 0 in a pitch black room is still too bright. =/

 

I have also noticed this since upgrading to the intel 2361. Is there any disadvantage with rolling back to the lenovo drivers?

 

According to this topic " x220 - Please share your GPU performance" the performance is greater using the Intel drivers.