Brightness resets on computer restart

[kidsforchrist]

When I restart or turn on the computer the brightness is set to 100 on the boot splash but when in the login screen it is set to the minimum. When logged in it is still minimum. When I change the brightness in the screen settings it will change the brightness but it will go back to minimum when the computer is shutdown or restarted. I will need to change the brightness in the Screen setting every time I restart my computer.

I use a HP G72 Notebook laptop

Ubuntu 11.10
64BIT

[Mark Russell (marrusl)]

This describes precisely what happens to my laptop screen. Although it does not happen with my external display (over HDMI).

I have a System76 Pangolin Performance (panp7). Running the open "radeon" driver with a ATI HD4570 (iirc).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[metos (metos00)]

same probleme on my laptop dell precision m4600 (ubuntu 11.10 64b) (with ati video card)

[g.gr (2gr)]

same problem on asus n53s, ubuntu 11.10 64bit

I've temporaly edited /etc/rc.local
with
echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness

2 is the brightness set by default (choose between 0 - 10)

[Mikolaj (mikolaj-babiak)]

Similar problem on HP probook 6465b running Ubuntu 12.04. Screen brightness and brightess setting resets to max afeter every reboot. Also, even thought I've set the screen to be turned off after 3 min idling, it's not. It only fades to black, but you can still see that the backlight is working.

[Praerit Jain (praeritdude-deactivatedaccount)]

I have the same problem. This did not use to be the case when i was using Ubuntu 11.04. But since 11.10, its been like this. Also, the brightness control buttons do not work.

I use HP G72 B66US Laptop.

[Samuel Wolf (samuel-wolf)]

Ubuntu 12.04 x64, same problem.
Add echo 2 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness to /etc/rc.local help for the moment.

[Dan Dart (dandart)]

This is a bug in usplash/plymouth's use of Intel's KMS (whichever the one that 12.10 uses).
Many other distros use this and this is becoming critical (people not being able to access their screens).

[arun (arungpurohit)]

if u r using ubuntu os then run this code in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/sysvinit-backlight

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sysvinit-backlight

[arun (arungpurohit)]

if u r using ubuntu os then run this code in terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nrbrtx/sysvinit-backlight

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install sysvinit-backlight

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