[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#480872: hal: LCD brightness on battery after screen dim ignores user changes to brightness

[Tim Richardson]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-1
Severity: normal

When my Dell D420 is running on battery, the LCD is dimmed after a short 
period of inactivity, in accordance with my preference in g-p-m
However, when activity occurs (eg mouse movement) the screen brightness 
resumes to a certain level, ignoring any changes to brightness I have 
made with the brightness control hotkeys. gnome-power-manager does not 
allow me to set the brightness chosen when battery mode is activated. 


Correct behaviour would be to return brightness to the level it was 
before the idle-dimming occurred. 






-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                  3.107           add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                     1.2.1-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                 20080508-1      Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                    2.7-10          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3              1.2.1-2         simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2         0.74-2          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1                1.95.8-4        XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                  1:4.3.0-4       GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.16.3-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1          0.5.11~rc2-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                  0.5.11~rc2-1    Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1               0.13.13-1       Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6               4.3.0-4         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4             2:0.1.12-9      userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0            0.114-2         libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                 3.2-11          Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount                    2.13.1-3+lenny1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                 1:2.2.10-2      Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                 1.1.0-1         utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                     0.114-2         /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                 0.73-7          Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-7    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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