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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #122666
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 122666

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Jarmo Ilonen (trewas) wrote :

Thinkpad X41 and gnome-power-manager 2.19.6-0ubuntu2. I have the same issue, "dim display when idle" is unchecked, but after the laptop has been idle for a while, the brightness is changed to whatever value is in "set display brightness to:". I think this started happening for me only a week or so ago and I assumed that g-p-m 2.19.6 broke this and that the following changelog entry is the culprit:

   * Try to discover the laptop backlight type by checking the backlight
     state before we try and set it. Fixes #436717
    .....
 -- Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:44:34 +0200

However, that doesn't fit to the original filing date of this bug, so I am not certain if the underlying bug is the same (or maybe I did not notice it earlier).

A log from "gnome-power-manager --no-daemon --verbose" is attached. It shows all the lines which appear when the laptop has been idle for a while and g-p-m decides to change the brightness to full. No buttons were pressed while that log was generated, even if the log claims so.

As a side note, fixing a brightness related bug #61184 would be appreciated :P