Martin, I'm not sure to have understood everything : You said "hal support for smartdimmer isn't going away anytime soon", but for me hal never manage to get my backlight to work, In one bug report in LP, I know a change has been made for nvidia user, to use smartdimmer, but this is not working for user that do not have laptop_panel in lshal.. like me That's why I opened that bug report : https://bugs.launchpad.net/hal/+bug/345531
If hal would be fixed, it would mean that everything could be fine under gnome and kde ? How fast could it be to make hal work without laptop_panel ? I've already opened a bug for xbacklight... (and still nothing from kernel team) -- no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Mactel Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support. Status in Gnome Powermanager: New Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown Status in Mactel Support: New Status in X.Org X server: Unknown Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “xorg-server” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: devicekit-power A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal... In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight... As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management ! ProblemType: Bug Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE= PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic SourcePackage: devicekit-power Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~mactel-support More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
