Bug#477631: gnome-power-manager: g-p-m keeps resetting brightness

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 10:29 -0700, Obi wrote:
> not sure, my problem is that if I set a brightness via the keyboard (that
> is acpi event catched by acpi-support and translated into the brightness
> up or down) after a while g-p-m resets it to whatever it thinks should
> be. 
> 
> But I just discovered that the brightness applet is part of g-p-m, and
> using that one to set the brightness work: g-p-m leave the luminosity
> where I want it. So, this bug is for me downgraded to a very low
> priority, since I can now have the screen like I want it and I assume is
> more a problem of g-p-m and acpi-support not understanding each other.

I see, what brand of laptop is it? Do you know how brightness is set? Is
it through hardware and/or acpi?

You could probably try to figure this out by stopping acpid and try
setting brightness via the keyboard. 

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
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