Brightness control is slow and not costant with 90-Add-guarded-brightness-stepping-functions.patch 91-Using-guarded-and-scaled-stepping-when-dimming.patch
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
90-Add-
When changing the brightness, the control is not costant and it is really slow.
I explain better what I mean.
When I am at 30% and I want to reduce till 20% I have to press 4 times, when I am at 20% and I want to reduce till 10% i have to press 5 times.
That means ~15 key press to reduce the backlight from 50 till 10! Totally unusable. Something like:
60->50: 1 time
50->40: 2 times
40->30: 3 times
30->20: 4 times
20->10: 5 times
10->00: 6 times
...just to give you an idea. This is not the correct behaviour, with default gnome-power-manager the control is ~ 10% step for each key event, in ubuntu the control is choppy for this reason.
Removing
"90-Add-
"91-Using-
FIXES the bug.
I am wondering, why we have those two patches? :)
Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
Ted, do you still remember why those were applied?
gnome-power-manager (2.24.0-1mactel3) unstable; urgency=low
* Nonlinear stepping for smooth dimming
* Patch trimming for upstream
-- Henrik Rydberg <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:55:08 +0100
There are no bug references, no tags in the patch, apparently not forwarded upstream, and they are heavily underdocumented. I already threw them out of the 2.25 packages, since they don't apply any more. I contacted Henrik Rydberg via mail back then, but didn't get any answer yet. Do you think it's safe to drop them?