Lower brightness than 1 on intel_backlight

Asked Mar 10 '17 at 13:03

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On performing this, cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness I get the value as 1, which is the lowest possible value but my screen is bright. Upon setting to 0 with sudo su -c "echo 0 >/sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness" the brightness doesn't change and the brightness controls (up and down) stop working. Is there any way I can lower the brightness below this value. The above command doesn't accept fractional values.

asked Mar 10 '17 at 13:03

canonball

Does your screen backlight react to any change of the value in /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness? If not I would suspect it's the wrong file. – Sethos II Mar 10 '17 at 13:09
Yup, it does. It reflects changes from any integer value of 1 and higher. – canonball Mar 10 '17 at 13:25
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A dell perhaps? This might work http://askubuntu.com/a/481501/15811 – Rinzwind Mar 10 '17 at 13:57

Lower brightness than 1 on intel_backlight

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