With no user activity (mouse or keyboard) for 20 seconds and with laptop on battery power the screen goes to maximum brightness. This should not happen as it increases battery power drainage.
At activity restored (user presses a keystroke or moves the mouse) screen brightness goes back to normal (previous value).
No such problem was ever encountered on previous Ubuntu series (< 11.10).
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 2 22:02:16 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard Compaq Mini
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=b0f9d627-678d-4a9e-97a4-40e0188d6521 ro quiet quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-27 (6 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/30/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 361A0 Ver. F.16
dmi.board.name: 361A
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 02.12
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: CNU8473JX5
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr361A0Ver.F.16:bd04/30/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnCompaqMini:pvrF.05:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn361A:rvrKBCVersion02.12:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Compaq Mini
dmi.product.version: F.05
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
gnome-power-bugreport: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.