Bug#645299: openarena: Display brightness setting has no effect when on second monitor.

[Simon McVittie]

reassign 645299 ioquake3
tags 645299 + confirmed
found 645299 1.36+svn1946-5
found 645299 1.36+svn2139-1
thanks

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 at 14:20:07 +0700, Sthu Deus wrote:
> It is impossible for me to adjuct display brightness that is set in
> system/display options - moving the slider has no any effect for the
> second monitor which I use on my laptop.

Hmm, this now doesn't work for me either (and it's rather dark, as if
the slider was at the lowest setting). The same version worked when I
uploaded it, so this may be a regression in newer versions of something
that ioquake3 depends on (SDL, Mesa, X).

Quake III Arena has the same problem, and both games use the same engine
(ioquake3) behind the scenes, so I'm reassigning this bug to the actual
engine.

What window manager do you use? If it's GNOME-Shell or Metacity, is it in
compositing mode or not?

Does the brightness slider work for you if you disconnect the external
monitor and play OpenArena on your laptop? (That doesn't work for me,
though.)

What graphics hardware and driver are you using? (If you run openarena from
a terminal, you should see lines starting with GL_VENDOR, GL_RENDERER and
GL_VERSION).

If you play OpenArena in a window (turn off Fullscreen), is it brighter?
When I try this, it's much brighter than in full-screen, but the brightness
slider still doesn't do anything (that might be an unavoidable limitation
of SDL, though).

Thanks,
    S