** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Importance: High => Undecided
** Changed in: gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => In Progress
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862474
Title:
Backlight control for "dell_backlight" is missing in gsd-backlight-
helper
Status in Gnome Settings Daemon:
New
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “gnome-settings-daemon” source package in Oneiric:
In Progress
Bug description:
Hi,
Since a quite a while backlight management on my notebook (Dell
Latitude D830) is quite broken. It started when a patch to manage the
backlight in the kernel intel-driver was introduced.
Here is the deal:
My notebook normally uses the kernel interface "dell_backlight". This
worked perfectly until the above patch was introduced. New gsd-
backlight-helper chooses "intel_backlight" as the standard interface.
When using this, i can still control the backlight but because
"intel_backlight" assumes 255 steps instead of the correct 7 steps of
"dell_backlight", "gnome-settings-daemon" can't correctly set and get
the values.
After patching the file "gsd-backlight-helper.c" (Adding
"dell_backlight as an additional kernel-interface) the backlight
management is back to normal. Please see the attachment for more
details.
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