Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #285815
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 285815

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Alex Murray (alexmurray) wrote :

Seems I needed to adjust the correction_factor gconf key in gnome-power-manager - in good light, the light sensor would be

cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/light
(4,0)

and then covering it with my hand, I'd get

cat /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/light
(0,0)

So it seems to be reading quite low, changing correction_factor to 10000 seems to give some appropriate results... I am a little concerned about the 0 reading from the right sensor though - is this something specific to the applesmc driver on MBP 5,1 or is it more indicative of some hardware
fault??