Some laptops map level zero to screen off
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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indicator-brightness |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am using indicator-
With BIOS version 206, there were brightness levels zero through 10 reported by gnome-settings-
I have recently upgraded to BIOS version 215, and now g-s-d reports 4296 brightness levels! Furthermore, setting level to anything less than around 30 renders the screen incredibly hard to read. Setting it to 0 or 1 is approximately equivalent to turning it off entirely.
This leads to a situation unrecoverable without a reboot if you do this and cannot then control the mouse pointer blind to undo it.
For lack of a better idea, I would suggest a heuristic like: "if more than 100 brightness levels reported, delete zero from the list of levels that will be used"
Changed in indicator-brightness: | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Interesting problem ;-) As there are no hardware buttons on this machine to solve this issue, your idea might be a way to solve it. Are you interested in writing a patch?