Screen brightness after suspend in Ubuntu

Linux

Author

Vinh Nguyen

Published

June 1, 2012

Many laptops have their screens dimmed after returning from "suspend" and cannot get back to their original brightness. The bug hasn't been fixed for 3 years. A fix is provided in the bug report by putting something like the following in /etc/rc.local:

brt=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness`
abrt=`cat /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/actual_brightness`
if (( $brt != $abrt )) ; then
echo $abrt > /sys/devices/virtual/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness
fi

Use the following

find /sys/ -iname '*bright*'

to see if you need to change the exact path to the files.