I have an Alienware r3 15 laptop in which I've recently installed Ubuntu 17.10(dual boot with Windows 10). So far everything's fine except that I am unable to find any setting(if any) to change the brightness. There is no brightness slider in the system menu nor anything to change the brightness in "Settings". I tried installing the brightness changer indicator by:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:indicator-brightness/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indicator-brightness
but it's saying that no backlights were found on my system. I tried changing the backlight from the command line:
sudo echo 100 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/*/brightness
tee: '/sys/class/backlight/*/brightness': No such file or directory 100
Please help. The output of sudo lshw -C display
on my terminal is:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: GP106M [GeForce GTX 1060 Mobile]
vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:125 memory:dc000000-dcffffff memory:b0000000-bfffffff memory:c0000000-c1ffffff ioport:e000(size=128) memory:c0000-dffff
*-display
description: Display controller
product: Intel Corporation
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
version: 04
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pciexpress msi pm bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=i915 latency=0
resources: irq:126 memory:db000000-dbffffff memory:70000000-7fffffff ioport:f000(size=64)
Best Answer
you can install the brightness changer indicator:
after launching it should shows on your panel. click it and choose the desired value.
Another way is to do:
change 1000 to desired value