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Brightness Overclocking your eee pc

Saturday, June 5th, 2010 | Gadgets, Tech-savvy | No Comments

For some reason it is possible to ‘overclock’ the brightness of an eee pc display. Windows users can use eeectl, a nice tool that lets you manipulate the brightness (among other things) with the ease of a mouse click.

I recently switched to easypeasy Linux on my eee 901, and unfortunately there is no Linux port of eeectl available. But worry no more, here is the solution that worked for me: Open a shell and enter

nick@eee901:~$ sudo setpci -s 00:02.1 f4.b=ff

‘ff’ sets the brightness to maximum value, somewhere around ’99′ is the normal maxed out brightness.

Kudos to the poster @EeeUser forum! I just reposted this here because I tried to google this issue a few times unsuccessfully. Hope by doing so more people find this trick.

Happy outdoor eeeing :)

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