i still have this problem on my Sony VPCF12M1E , actually i have it on some
linux distributions , fedora ubuntu suse debian (all current releases, havent
tried the others).
About ubuntu i tried both 10.04lts and 10.10.
The situation is that the screen either works at full brightness or doesnt
@Ryan, is this fix still the cause of a regression for you? Does the
regression still remain in the upcoming Jaunty 9.04 release -
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Please let us know.
Thanks.
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed = Fix Released
** Changed
This seems to be resolved. I've upgraded to 9.04 on both my laptops and
I haven't had backlight issues since.
On 4/21/2009 2:15 PM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
@Ryan, is this fix still the cause of a regression for you? Does the
regression still remain in the upcoming Jaunty 9.04 release -
not a gpm bug.
** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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LCD backlight turns off when between discrete levels, both from hotkeys and
from dim-on-idle.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121833
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I thought of a different way to re-add zero: simply allow it as one of the
usable values. As it is right now, gnome-power-manager's indicated brightness
levels
(100, 85, 71, 57, 42, 28, 14, 0)
no longer match the indicated values in the dsdt:
(100, 87, 75, 62, 50, 37, 25, 12, and a true zero
Thank you! I'm glad to see that the 2.6.24-11-generic kernel I recently
installed has fixed this!
One slightly odd request: sometimes, for a gimmick, it's fun to turn off the
backlight deliberately; is there any way to do this now, perhaps by echoing a
specific negative value into sysfs
This was working fine for me on my ThinkPad X61T laptop until the latest
Kernel this worked fine.
With the latest kernel (24-11) my laptop display now properly displays
after resuming from suspend, but now I cannot control the brightness
through the Gnome applet or the function keys on my
Thanks Dana. I'm including the corresponding upstream git commit id's
for the kernel team to reference. Thanks.
commit 38531e6fe51ad5c7dfe72e0e066b5f54bc1921cd
Author: Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Dec 26 02:03:26 2007 +
ACPI: video: Rationalise ACPI backlight
Should be in the next kernel upload
** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.22 (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete = Won't Fix
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Ubuntu Kernel Team (ubuntu-kernel-team) = Ben Collins
(ben-collins)
Status: Triaged = In Progress
** Changed in: linux
