Comment 75 for bug 137598

Scott, I apologize for taking so long– work has been taking all my time! Finally, I was able to test Karmic, and I can tell you that the bug IS NOT present in Karmic. It has been fixed (at least for me).

Again, I am running an Asus eeepc 901. I ran the Karmic netbook remix off of a flash drive, and ran the following two tests:

1) On AC:

     a) Put screen at full brightness. After idle time expired (which I set to 1 minute), the screen dimmed. So far so good.
     b) Put screen at minimum brightness (almost– but not quite– off). After idle time expired, the screen simply faded off. How classy! Upon moving my mouse, the screen woke back up TO THE SAME brightness I set it to (minimum brightness). Quite nice.
     c) Put screen a few notches above minimum brightness. After idle time expired, the screen again simply faded off. Again, upon moving my mouse, the screen woke back up to the same few-notches-above-minimum brightness.

2) On battery power

     This does not need to be enumerated, as the results were identical to experiment (1).

          The conclusion drawn from this is:
               o If the brightness is ABOVE idle brightness, then when idle time expires the screen is dimmed to the idle brightness.
               o If the brightness is BELOW idle brightness, then when idle time expires the screen is faded off.

     I really like this solution! Scott, is there any way to have this backported?