[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#711303: upower: Brightness setting needs calibration/goes out of bounds

[Sean M. Pappalardo]

Package: upower
Version: 0.9.17-1
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream

Dear Maintainer,
The upower package seems to have a problem with laptop display panel 
brightness settings (at least in conjunction with KDE 4.8.4's power 
management applet) in that if I move the slider all the way up, the 
back-light turns off, and it's already at maximum brightness when the 
slider is at 50%. (As well, the back-light turns off when the slider is 
all the way down, but that makes much more sense and may be intentional.)

This is an HP EliteBook 8440p with Seiko/Epson display panel and nVidia 
NVS 3100M using the proprietary driver (nvidia-glx + nvidia-kernel-dkms 
packages.)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
   APT prefers stable-updates
   APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages upower depends on:
ii  dbus                   1.6.8-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-38
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.6.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.100.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgudev-1.0-0         175-7.2
ii  libimobiledevice2      1.1.1-4
ii  libplist1              1.8-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.105-3
ii  libupower-glib1        0.9.17-1
ii  libusb-1.0-0           2:1.0.11-1
ii  pm-utils               1.4.1-9
ii  udev                   175-7.2

Versions of packages upower recommends:
ii  policykit-1  0.105-3

upower suggests no packages.

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