brightness recently (more) broken on Dell XPS M1330

Bug #299300 reported by Jason Kraftcheck
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Low
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Bug Description

After a recent update (the last day or two) brightness control is now more broken on my Dell XPS M1330. The brightness controls jump over multiple brightness levels. After "dimming" the display because of inactivity, the system restores it to a dimmer level than the "dimmed" state.

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Germán Bassi (germanbassi) wrote :

There's a workaround by dell's support in this webpage http://blog.higherthings.org/borghardt/article/3633.html
You should blacklist the video module. It worked for me.

German.

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Jason Kraftcheck (kraftche) wrote : Re: [Bug 299300] Re: brightness recently (more) broken on Dell XPS M1330

moonkey wrote:
> There's a workaround by dell's support in this webpage http://blog.higherthings.org/borghardt/article/3633.html
> You should blacklist the video module. It worked for me.
>

I tried blacklisting the video 'module'. This did fix the problem of
controlling the brightness, but broke the brightness control in a
different way. Without the 'video' module, if I change the brightness
(using keyboard hotkeys) then the brightness-level-indicator window
lingers on the screen and focus is never released (I can no longer use
the keyboard for anything except controlling the brightness.)

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Germán Bassi (germanbassi) wrote :

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Jason Kraftcheck <email address hidden> wrote:
> I tried blacklisting the video 'module'. This did fix the problem of
> controlling the brightness, but broke the brightness control in a
> different way. Without the 'video' module, if I change the brightness
> (using keyboard hotkeys) then the brightness-level-indicator window
> lingers on the screen and focus is never released (I can no longer use
> the keyboard for anything except controlling the brightness.)

That's odd and (fortunately) it didn't happened to me. BTW i still
have hardy on my xps.

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status: New → Confirmed
Changed in gnome-power-manager:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report Jason Kraftcheck , It has been a long time without any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your help.

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Incomplete
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Jason Kraftcheck (kraftche) wrote :

The problem seems to be resolved in 11.04.

thanks,

- jason

On 07/11/2011 11:51 AM, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> Thanks for the report Jason Kraftcheck , It has been a long time without
> any comment or a duplicate in this bug report and It is possible that
> the bug has been fixed. May you please try to reproduce it with the
> latest Stable Release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal and add the respective
> comments to the report? You can learn how to get that release at
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download . Thanks again and we appreciate your
> help.
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Triaged => Incomplete
>

--
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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