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

[Obi]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:48:30PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> 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. 

I do have an ASUS V2S and the brightness works with acpid only.

> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Sven Arvidsson
> http://www.whiz.se
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