Bug#509294: gnome-power-manager: Display Brightness does not work in Toshiba A305 S6859

Nelson Castillo nelsoneci at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 22:57:46 UTC 2008


Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.22.1-4

Hello.

I cannot setup the brightness in a Toshiba A305 S6859.
I tried with the gnome applet that uses this package.

How do I control display brightness?
How can I help debug the issue (In case the situation can be improved)?

Regards.


-- Package-specific info:
Distro version:       lenny/sid
Kernel version:       2.6.26-1-amd64
g-p-m version:        2.22.1
HAL version:          0.5.11
System manufacturer:  missing
System version:       missing
System product:       missing
AC adapter present:   yes
Battery present:      yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present:  no
Battery Information:
  battery.charge_level.current = 94576  (0x17170)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.design = 94576  (0x17170)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.last_full = 94576  (0x17170)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.percentage = 100  (0x64)  (int)
  battery.charge_level.rate = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  battery.is_rechargeable = true  (bool)
  battery.model = 'PA3534U-1BRS'  (string)
  battery.present = true  (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false  (bool)
  battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false  (bool)
  battery.reporting.current = 4001  (0xfa1)  (int)
  battery.reporting.design = 4000  (0xfa0)  (int)
  battery.reporting.last_full = 4000  (0xfa0)  (int)
  battery.reporting.rate = 0  (0x0)  (int)
  battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion'  (string)
  battery.reporting.unit = 'mAh'  (string)
  battery.serial = '1468'  (string)
  battery.technology = 'lithium-ion'  (string)
  battery.type = 'primary'  (string)
  battery.vendor = ''  (string)
  battery.voltage.current = 23644  (0x5c5c)  (int)
  battery.voltage.design = 23644  (0x5c5c)  (int)
  battery.voltage.unit = 'mV'  (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
n         3462  0.0  0.3 230632 16204 ?        Ss   16:28   0:01 gnome-power-manager
n         3485  0.0  0.4 214724 17880 ?        S    16:28   0:00 /usr/lib/gnome-power-manager/gnome-brightness-applet --oaf-
n        12447  0.0  0.0  10680  1596 pts/0    R+   17:55   0:00  |           \_ /bin/sh /usr/share/gnome-power-manager/gnom
HAL Process Information:
105       3014  0.0  0.1  29668  4384 ?        Ss   16:27   0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
root      3015  0.0  0.0  17768  1196 ?        S    16:27   0:00  \_ hald-runner
root      3045  0.0  0.0  19880  1160 ?        S    16:27   0:00      \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event3 /d
105       3049  0.0  0.0  16604   956 ?        S    16:27   0:00      \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run
root      3056  0.0  0.0  19880  1236 ?        S    16:27   0:00      \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda (every 2 sec)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii  dbus-x11               1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  gconf2                 2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  hal                    0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  libart-2.0-2           2.3.20-2          Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0           2.22.0-1          Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0         2.22.0-1          The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                  2.7-16            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-7           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.2.1-4           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.76-1            simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-3           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgconf2-4            2.22.0-1          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglade2-0            1:2.6.2-1         library to load .glade files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.6-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0      2.22.3-2          GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgnome2-0            2.20.1.1-1        The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0      2.20.1.1-1        A powerful object-oriented display
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.20.1.1-2        The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0         1:2.22.0-5        GNOME Virtual File System (runtime
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0     0.10.19-3         Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-4         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhal1                0.5.11-6          Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libice6                2:1.0.4-1         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnotify1 [libnotify1 0.4.4-3           sends desktop notifications to a n
ii  liborbit2              1:2.14.13-0.1     libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpanel-applet2-0     2.20.3-5          library for GNOME Panel applets
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-3          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libpopt0               1.14-4            lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libsm6                 2:1.0.3-2         X11 Session Management library
ii  libwnck22              2.22.3-1          Window Navigator Construction Kit 
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.5-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1            1:1.1.9-1         X cursor management library
ii  libxext6               2:1.0.4-1         X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxfixes3             1:4.0.3-2         X11 miscellaneous 'fixes' extensio
ii  libxi6                 2:1.1.4-1         X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxml2                2.6.32.dfsg-5     GNOME XML library
ii  libxrandr2             2:1.2.3-1         X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  notification-daemon    0.3.7-1+b1        a daemon that displays passive pop
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.

gnome-power-manager suggests no packages.

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