No popup OSD for Dell Studio laptops
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Settings Daemon |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-power |
Fix Released
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Medium
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Intrepid |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Currently, several Dell laptops contain Intel graphics cards. The Intel driver reports that it is able to change the display brightness, however it also reports the number of levels supported is zero.
In cases such as these, gnome power manager should fallback to the functional
HAL Backend if it's available for the laptop.
When falling back to the HAL backend, since the laptop supports the brightness changing from the HW key rather than trying to force a value change, some changes are necessary in that logic too.
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IMPACT:
This is a low impact problem, but a regression from Hardy
ADDRESSING:
This has been addressed in upstream stable gnome 2.24's svn tree as well as gnome trunk. It has been included in Jaunty as well.
TEST CASE:
This is only "known" to affect the Studio 1535 and 1537, but likely affects other platforms too. It can be reproduced by trying to press the brightness keys on such a platform. No popup OSD is observed.
REGRESSION POTENTIAL:
The code doesn't introduce any new methods, but simply adds better logic handling for corner cases. The risk for regression shouldn't be high.
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Undecided → Unknown |
status: | New → Unknown |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in gnome-power: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
status: | Unknown → Fix Released |
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in gnome-power: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
This bug was fixed in the package gnome-power-manager - 2.24.0-0ubuntu11
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gnome-power-manager (2.24.0-0ubuntu11) jaunty; urgency=low
* 77-hal- brightness- in-hardware. patch: Don't fail to show the OSD hal-fallback. patch: Fall back to HAL if xrandr calls
when brightness changing is supported in hardware. (LP: #304187)
* 78-xrandr-
do fail or will be failing.
-- Mario Limonciello <email address hidden> Mon, 01 Dec 2008 02:56:38 -0500