Brigthness step when controlled via hotkeys

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Brigthness step when controlled via hotkeys

#1 Post by Aleq » Fri Sep 02, 2011 3:27 am

Hi,
recently (after some update perhaps) I noticed my W510 started to change brightness in bigger steps than 1. If I set the brightness to 1 and then I start increasing the brigthness by pressing Fn+Home, OSD shows following levels:
1 - 6 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15

Those steps between 1, 6 and 8 are really too big.

Before this, it was working normally, i.e. 0-1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Aleq
T60 2007-FVG; +2GB Kingston (3GB total), Momentus 7200.2 200GB 7200rpm
W510 4319-3BG; +4GB Lenovo (8GB total), Intel SSD 320 series

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Re: Brigthness step when controlled via hotkeys

#2 Post by Harryc » Fri Sep 02, 2011 4:40 am

Try a previous version of the Hotkey Features Integration driver.

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Re: Brigthness step when controlled via hotkeys

#3 Post by Aleq » Wed Sep 07, 2011 3:07 am

I tried 3.33 and it indeed fixed my issue. Thanks!
T60 2007-FVG; +2GB Kingston (3GB total), Momentus 7200.2 200GB 7200rpm
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Re: Brigthness step when controlled via hotkeys

#4 Post by Aleq » Tue Apr 24, 2012 2:11 am

Strange and sad. I started to experience the same issue again later (most probably due to some updates) and decided to solve it again. I uninstalled current hotkey features integration package and installed 3.33. It did not help. And even while it was uninstalled, I tried fn+home / fn+end to see how it works without the package and noticed those big brighness steps next to dimmed screen. It starts to change the brightness in small steps after few initial big steps, so it's just like before. I guess it's not related only to the Hotkey Features Integration package then. What else could it be? BIOS?
T60 2007-FVG; +2GB Kingston (3GB total), Momentus 7200.2 200GB 7200rpm
W510 4319-3BG; +4GB Lenovo (8GB total), Intel SSD 320 series

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#5 Post by thorcik » Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:17 pm

You may try the power management as well, it resolved my issues with osd. Both driver and utility.
T60/T61 2637-AB6/8895-W4M, UXGA, T9300, 8GB RAM, Vertex3, Intel WiFi Link 5100
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