Backlight control for "dell_backlight" is missing in gsd-backlight-helper
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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GNOME Settings Daemon |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Rodrigo Moya | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Rodrigo Moya |
Bug Description
Hi,
Since a quite a while backlight management on my notebook (Dell Latitude D830) is quite broken. It started when a patch to manage the backlight in the kernel intel-driver was introduced.
Here is the deal:
My notebook normally uses the kernel interface "dell_backlight". This worked perfectly until the above patch was introduced. New gsd-backlight-
After patching the file "gsd-backlight-
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | High → Undecided |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
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