Brightness with laptop on hardy dims when inactive but doesn't brighten again

Bug #214061 reported by Jim Hutchinson
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

I tried to convert a question and it didn't do quite what I expected (sorry, still a noob). Anyway, on my Dell D820 running Hardy when on battery the screen will dim all the way to max "dimness" but never brighten again. In fact, it will do this even while working if you happen to unplug the power. It will go dim immediately and you have to manually brighten it with the Fn keys.

Below is the original question text from Zdenek Novotny.

I am using ASUS F3Tc laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 with Gnome and Screenlets . When I am not connected to power, but just to battery and let the notebook some minutes without action, it automatically decreases brightness, which is correct power management action. Problem is, that the brightness should return to normal when I plug-in the power connector or just move mouse or press any button on keyboard. Instead of that, it stays with the decreases brightness and the only solution is restart and using Change LCD Function key.

Jim Hutchinson (jphutch)
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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

I believe that this has been fixed by the package in my PPA.

http://launchpad.net/~ted-gould/+archive

Please check to see if this fixes the problem.

Changed in gnome-power-manager:
status: New → Fix Committed
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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

You have an i386 package too? :)

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Bart Verwilst (verwilst) wrote :

Just installed your latest package and restarted X to be sure. Now, the screen seems to brighten when i stop moving my mouse for some time, and as soon as i move my mouse, the screen darkens :P it's reversed.. :)

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote :

There is an x86 package in the PPA along with lpia and amd64.

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 214061] Re: Brightness with laptop on hardy dims when inactive but doesn't brighten again

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 22:19 +0000, Bart Verwilst wrote:
> Just installed your latest package and restarted X to be sure. Now, the
> screen seems to brighten when i stop moving my mouse for some time, and
> as soon as i move my mouse, the screen darkens :P it's reversed.. :)

*hits forehead* doh!

Okay, try the updated package. Sorry about that.

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