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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #239413
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 239413

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Román (roman-pena-perez) wrote : Re: [Bug 239413] Re: Four steps of brightness changing after pressing a brightness key only once

2009/11/2 ethanay <email address hidden>:
> running fresh install of 9.10 on Dell M1330
>
> isn't there supposed to be just one step per actual button press?  if
> so, i'm getting two...
>
> 11:07:03.785: platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = brightness-up
> 11:07:03.799: computer_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = brightness-up
>
> 11:07:05.477: computer_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = brightness-down
> 11:07:05.477: platform_i8042_i8042_KBD_port_logicaldev_input condition ButtonPressed = brightness-down
>
> This is an improvement over Hardy, no doubt, but still does not give me
> access to every brightness setting on the laptop!
>
> --

 Yes, it improved to two key presses since 8.10 (Intrepid), but no
changes after that. I guess they solved just one duplication but
there's one more left.
 BTW, my machine has an odd number (7) of levels of brightness, so I
can get them all: start with the top one and then lower by one key
press at a time to get the odd levels, until you get to level 1, so
the next will be 0. Going up from there will give you the even ones,
until you get to 6, so the next will be 7, the top level, and you can
start all over again. I also used to have around the brightness applet
as a fall-back. Hope this helps.

  Román