[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#584762: [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#584762: xfce4-power-manager: Not enough brightness levels

[Christophe TROESTLER]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 14:24:26 +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 
> reassign 584762 hal
> thanks
> On dim., 2010-06-06 at 14:06 +0200, Christophe Troestler wrote:
> > Package: xfce4-power-manager
> > Version: 0.8.5-1
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > The number of brightness levels seems to be 7 in the manager but my
> > laptop has 15.  This is not a big problem to manually change the
> > brightness (when the on screen bar is empty/full, one gets a new one
> > for the additional levels) but it means that dimming the display is
> > not so nice as it uses the current 7 levels (it would also be great if
> > the dimming level was configurable). 
> 
> xfpm only picks what hal gives it, so you have to ask there.

Ah.  On closer inspection, the module thinkpad_acpi was adding
/sys/devices/virtual/backlight/thinkpad_screen which was repoting the
wrong number of brightness levels.  Blacklisting this module fixes the
issue.

Best,
C.