Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #129109
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 129109

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Roland Dreier (roland.dreier) wrote :

On my system (thinkpad X60s), with

ii gnome-power-mana 2.19.6-0ubuntu2 frontend for gnome-powermanager

this is definitely still happening. In fact as I type this into the comment box, the brightness meter has stayed stuck on my screen the whole time.

Also something seems to be setting the brightness about 20 times a second; my kernel logs are spammed with a continuous stream of

[ 3556.044000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.096000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.148000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.200000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.248000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.300000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.348000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.404000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.456000] set_level status: 0
[ 3556.504000] set_level status: 0

which comes from the ACPI video driver.

This is on a i386 gutsy system, completely up-to-date as of August 15.