Fedora 18 vs eMachines 525 notebook

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Hi,

I was trying to install F18/x86_64 on the notebook in $SUBJECT
but I could only use the "traditional" (VESA) mode. Although
KMS produced a good native picture but it was so dim that the
picture was barely visible. The Fn + Up/Down buttons that should
change the brightness did nothing.

[root at localhost ~]# lspci -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated 
Graphics Controller (rev 09)
[root at localhost ~]# lspci -vxxxn -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 0300: 8086:2a42 (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
     Subsystem: 1025:0212
     Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
     Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
     Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
     I/O ports at 50f0 [size=8]
     Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
     Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
     Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
00: 86 80 42 2a 07 04 90 00 09 00 00 03 00 00 80 00
10: 04 00 00 90 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 80 00 00 00 00
20: f1 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 25 10 12 02
30: 00 00 00 00 90 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0b 01 00 00
40: 00 00 00 00 48 00 00 00 09 00 0a 61 b1 6d 51 1f
50: b9 e1 70 03 19 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7c
60: 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
70: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
90: 05 d0 01 00 0c 10 e0 fe 22 41 00 00 00 00 00 00
a0: 00 00 00 00 09 00 06 20 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
b0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
c0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 4d 01 00 00
d0: 01 00 23 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 34 00 00 00
e0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 80 00 1a 41 20 00 00
f0: 0a 18 34 07 00 00 00 00 a0 0f 09 00 18 c0 a8 7b

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi