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  1. Bug #1098216
  2. Comment #217

Comment 217 for bug 1098216

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In , dannybaumann (dannybaumann-linux-kernel-bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #90)
> One things changes though, is that the
> lower brightness level really shuts the screen down.

That's because ACPI and the intel driver have different understandings what exactly 0 brightness is supposed to mean.

See the mail thread in [1] for some discussion around this. As KDE dims down to 0, it's probably even more noticable for KDE users. I sent a patch to them as well ([2]), but interest in merging it seems low.

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/intel-gfx/2013-March/026016.html
[2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109792/