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Hack I wrote to fix the brightness on my Linux Mint machine.
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fix_brightness.sh
#!/bin/bash
me=`whoami`
max=`cat /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/max_brightness`
sudo chown ${me}:${me} /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
sudo chmod o+x /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
ls -al /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
echo ${max} > /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
sudo chmod 444 /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
sudo chown root:root /sys/class/backlight/radeon_bl0/brightness
exit
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For some reason, I couldn't get Mint to stop dimming the screen with the power plugged in through Power Management. This script took care of that. Hope it helps others out too.

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