Screen brightness can not be set to maximum

[Sami Pietila]

Hi,

I have HP Compaq nx6325 and Ubuntu Lucid. After a boot the screen is bright. If I try to decrease screen brightness and then increase brightness again to full, the screen does not become as bright as it is from the boot (even if the ubuntu screen brightness popup meter shows full). The full brightness can be restored only by booting the machine.

It also happens that if I haven't set the brightness and the screen is bright and I push fn+f10 (which is a button to increase the screen brightness) the screen actually becomes dimmer (ubuntu brightness popup shows full value).
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Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 003: ID 413c:3012 Dell Computer Corp. Optical Wheel Mouse
 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 08ff:2580 AuthenTec, Inc. AES2501 Fingerprint Sensor
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351ET#AK8)
Package: gnome-power-manager 2.30.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=73a3b3fe-b530-4126-9230-faee4071d867 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2006
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68TT2 Ver. F.06
dmi.board.name: 30B0
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 40.15
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU7080NVT
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68TT2Ver.F.06:bd12/21/2006:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaqnx6325(EY351ET#AK8):pvrF.06:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30B0:rvrKBCVersion40.15:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq nx6325 (EY351ET#AK8)
dmi.product.version: F.06
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

[Nitesh Mistry (mistrynitesh)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please run "apport-collect 570734" from the terminal? You might also want to take a look at the debugging instructions located at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingGNOMEPowerManager and submit any other logs related to your problem. Thanks in advance.

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Sami Pietila (sampie)]

After newest updates, the problem still occurs.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance and sorry for the late response.

[Sami Pietila (sampie)]

The problem still occurs in ubuntu Natty. Additionally, with a new HP probook 6560b the setting of screen brightness does not work at all in ubuntu Natty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]