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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #345318
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 345318

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Fortunato Ventre (voria) wrote :

It seems that hal support is not always available. For example, 'lshal' does not report any UDI for backlight on Samsung NC10. Apart from that, it would be a bad idea to use hal in gpm xrandr functions.
Looking at the code, there are two distinct way to set brightness, xrandr and hal.