N130 flickering backlight on startup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a Samsung N130 netbook and Ubuntu occasionally and erratically flickers the backlight brightness of my screen up and down, usually on startup and when it attempts to dim the screen on idle (even though, for some reason, this option isn't enabled). Along with this the notification area brightness overlay (which fades in when you adjust the brightness) goes nuts.
The problem is stopped by using the brightness hard-keys on my netbook.
Whilst this is a beta it's not healthy for the backlight - beta or not, OS code shouldn't be able to damage hardware.
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
All updates installed. Bug is present before and after update center is run.
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
affects: | meta-kde (Ubuntu) → linux (Ubuntu) |
Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Same problem with a Samsung n220