[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Link to upstream bug report (just for reference): http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7221 -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
The problem was in relation to libsmbios. The BIOS of my laptop computer is secured with a password, therefore libsmbios and hal couldn't set the brightness. Removing the password solves this problem. ** Changed in: libsmbios (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
There is an hal related issue regarding this problem, therefore I will open a new bug report for this later. ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: libsmbios (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
This problem was not caused by kpowersave. ** Changed in: kpowersave (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Problem was not caused by kernel module. ** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
This bug was fixed in the package kde-guidance - 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu3 --- kde-guidance (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low * Add Add kubuntu_09_mountconfig_no_extensions.patch to remove uneeded call to pykdeextensions in mountconfig so that pyqt3 no longer needs to be patched to provide -dev files in the regular package (LP: #197867) * Add kubuntu_10_displayconfig_tryagain.patch so that if displayconfig thinks a proprietary driver is installed, but it can't find it, it will try to find a non-proprietary driver instead of crashing (LP: #198269) * Add kubuntu_11_wineconfg_amd64.patch so that wineconfig looks in the right dir for wine on AMD64 (LP: #151982) - Patch should be removed for the next svn snapshot or release as a fix has been committed upstream already * Add kubuntu_12_powermanager_survive_no_brightness.patch so that if the old brightness cannot be gotten from DBUS, powermanager won't crash (LP: #183656) and (LP: #198071) * Add kununtu_13_displayconfig_add_new_monitors.patch to update MonitorsDB with a upstream snapshot of MonitorsDB from hwdata (LP: #192899) -- Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:53:42 -0400 ** Changed in: kde-guidance (Ubuntu) Status: In Progress => Fix Released -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
As kde-guidance and kpowersave are both not able to set the brightness, and I think they are just sending DBUS-messages, the probably is cause by either HAL or the kernel module itself. Is there any way to test the kernel module directly? -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Bug #183656 is solved by this fix (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu2~ppa3), the problem reported here is still present - the brightness cannot be set on the Dell Latitude D620. -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Fix is not actually released yet. Please test the updated kde-guidance- powermanager in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~kitterman/+archive If I get confirmation the fix works, I'll include it in the next upload. ** Changed in: kde-guidance (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium Assignee: (unassigned) => Scott Kitterman (kitterman) Status: Fix Released => In Progress -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
This bug was fixed in the package kde-guidance - 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu2~ppa3 --- kde-guidance (0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu2~ppa3) hardy; urgency=low * Add kubuntu_10_displayconfig_tryagain.patch so that if displayconfig thinks a proprietary driver is installed, but it can't find it, it will try to find a non-proprietary driver instead of crashing (LP: #198269) * Add kubuntu_11_wineconfg_amd64.patch so that wineconfig looks in the right dir for wine on AMD64 (LP: #151982) - Patch should be removed for the next svn snapshot or release as a fix has been committed upstream already * Add kubuntu_12_powermanager_survive_no_brightness.patch so that if the old brightness cannot be gotten from DBUS, powermanager won't crash (LP: #183656) and (LP: #198071) * Add kubuntu13_displayconfig_add_new_monitors.patch to support additional ViewSonic VA702 variants (LP: #192899) -- Scott Kitterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:41 -0500 ** Changed in: kde-guidance (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
The patch I'm applying for Bug #183656 should at least solve the powermanager crashes part of this. Beyond that, I don't think powermanager can do anything about this if dbus doesn't answer. -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
In some discussions I read that it should be possible to set the brightness via /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/brightness, but this seems not to be supported: cat /proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD/brightness Again, I can change the brightness via the FN-keys - only changing by software doesn't work - and any program trying to change the brightness hangs with an error message: Warning: in getBrightness(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
modinfo dcdbas filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-11-generic/kernel/drivers/firmware/dcdbas.ko alias: dmi:*:[bs]vnD[Ee][Ll][Ll]*:* license:GPL author: Dell Inc. version:5.6.0-3.2 description:Dell Systems Management Base Driver (version 5.6.0-3.2) srcversion: 0A5B6E3056A439D49C7FD88 depends: vermagic: 2.6.24-11-generic SMP mod_unload This module is loaded via /etc/modules at boot. -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Added package information ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => New -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Sorry for not providing package information earlier. Version of Ubuntu: latest hardy, updated daily (kubuntu edition) hal: Installed: 0.5.10-5ubuntu8 Candidate: 0.5.10-5ubuntu8 kde-guidance: Installed: 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.8.0svn20080103-0ubuntu1 kpowersave: Installed: 0.7.3-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.7.3-1ubuntu1 linux-image-generic: Installed: 2.6.24.11.11 Candidate: 2.6.24.11.11 -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is subscribed to kde-guidance in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. It would be helpful to know which version of Ubuntu you noticed this issue? Additionally, the specific package versions of hal and kde-guidance that you have installed, you can check with 'apt-cache policy hal', would be really helpful too. Thanks in advance. ** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
I think it has something to do with hal, as even kpowersave can't change the brightness. Using the FN-keys to change the brightness works, but being able to change it by software can help saving power when running on batteries. ** Also affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: kpowersave (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 198071] Re: Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook
** Summary changed: - Cannot control backlight of Dell notebook + Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook ** Description changed: Binary package hint: kde-guidance - guidance-power-manager cannot set the backlight of my Dell Latitude D620 - notebook computer. The module dcdbas is loaded. + guidance-power-manager cannot set the brightness / backlight of my Dell + Latitude D620 notebook computer. The module dcdbas is loaded. I get the following error message: Warning: in getBrightness(): org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 876, in changePoweredBrightness self.powermanager.adjustBrightness(level) File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/powermanage.py", line 296, in adjustBrightness if level == self.getBrightness(): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/powermanage.py", line 287, in getBrightness return self.old_b AttributeError: PowerManage instance has no attribute 'old_b' Error in sys.excepthook: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/apport_python_hook.py", line 42, in apport_excepthook binary = os.path.realpath(os.path.join(os.getcwdu(), sys.argv[0])) IndexError: list index out of range Original exception was: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/guidance-power-manager.py", line 876, in changePoweredBrightness self.powermanager.adjustBrightness(level) File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/powermanage.py", line 296, in adjustBrightness if level == self.getBrightness(): File "/usr/share/python-support/kde-guidance-powermanager/powermanage.py", line 287, in getBrightness return self.old_b AttributeError: PowerManage instance has no attribute 'old_b' -- Cannot control brightness / backlight of Dell notebook https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/198071 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
