[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#652334: Bug#652334: fglrx-driver: VariBright enabled by default

[Sebastian Götte]

On 12/16/2011 10:06 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 16.12.2011 10:42, schrieb Sebastian Götte:
>> Package: fglrx-driver
>> Version: 1:11-11-3
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> "VariBright is an fglrx "feature" meant to save energy by adapting the
>> screen backlight brightness to screen content. It fails to do so in a
>> sensible manner and is terribly annoying (especially if you do not know
>> this is a "feature" called "VariBright").
>> To fix this, one can use amdcccle, which in turn changes one lin
> 
> Here it works like a charme. What should we do now?
> If the feature wouldn't be important and many users are affected I would
> agree with disabling it by default, but it isn't the case (it is
> important and for most users it works w/o any problems)

I had the problem that this feature introduces behavior I do not expect
from my *graphics driver* and whose cause was quite difficult to track
down for me. It would probably help to add a section to the man page and
possibly display a message during installation, or just add a paragraph
to the package description saying the package comes with VariBright. If
other users like it, there is indeed no need to change the default.

anyway, thanks for the prompt response
Sebastian Götte