vlc and mplayer reset brightness in Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on Intel GMAX3100

[vervelover]

Hi,

I'm running Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha6 with all the latest updates, I have an Intel GMAX3100 graphics card on my laptop, the bug occurs every time I play a movie with vlc or mplayer: brightness resets to 0. This happened also in Hardy Heron but an update removed the issue. Now it's back in Intrepid. The strange thing is that it doesn't happen with totem-gstreamer or xine-ui, but it does in gxine. If you need more info I'll give you anything you ask.

Thanks
vervelover

[benoit (benoitseligmann)]

i have a (i quote from lspci | grep VGA ) :
  Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
when i use mplayer or vlc (NOT XINE OR TOTEM) the brightness is set to a lower level.

[benoit (benoitseligmann)]

fogot to tell : use Intrepid last update ( probably rc)

[Magnus S (magnuss)]

Hi, thanks for reporting this bug.

Is this still an issue in Intrepid stable?
I just tried this with my GM965/GL960, but was unable to reproduce.

//magnus

[vervelover (alessiopangos)]

I reported the issue to the intel bug tracker, some guys are helping. I switched to Hardy, but the issue was still there on Intrepid stable, but I switched to Hardy so I don't know if some update has solved it.

this is my lspci | grep VGA:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

[vervelover (alessiopangos)]

Ok, I upgraded to Intrepid, the bug is still there, even with the proposed intel driver update.

[numtre (cupevampe)]

Issue is happening to me as well, as described above.
I'm using an X3100 graphics card on a fujitsu siemens amilo pi2515 laptop, Ubuntu Interpid Ibex.

[vervelover (alessiopangos)]

Hi, numtre, please report your experience here as well:

http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17972

It's Intel's bugzilla they will work on this harder if they see that many people has this issue!

[vervelover (alessiopangos)]

Ok, thanks to the bugzilla report now I have a workaround: just add the line

Option "DPMS" "false"

in the monitor section of your xorg.conf. It works!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vlc - 1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1

---------------
vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream version.
  * tighten build-dependencies on libschroedinger-dev, fixes FTBFS.
  * Following bugs have an associated and now closed upstream ticket in
    Launchpad: LP: #281295, #73449, #282567, #117640, #172938, #260918,
    #273685, #275043, #277834, #282394, #290753, #294136, #298925, #304265,
    #309728, #311742, #314038

vlc (1.0.0~rc2-1) experimental; urgency=low

  * New Upstream Release Candidate
    + Closes: #527010, #491441, #508618, #522824
  * Delete patches which were picked from upstream
  * Refresh patches
  * Remove vlc-plugin-esd and vlc-plugin-arts as they have been removed
    by upstream
  * SONAME change for libvlccore
  * Add new symbols for libvlc2
  * Fix static libs compile
  * Use vlc-wrapper manpage from upstream
  * vlc.install: add drawable and screen was renamed x11_screen
  * vlc-nox.install: Add and remove modules added/removed upstream
  * Point out in NEWS the modules renamed or splited
  * Add links to upstream NEWS and co in vlc-nox
  * Version the depedency of libvlcore2 on vlc-data
  * Remove unnecessary "Section:" in debian/control

vlc (0.9.9a-3) unstable; urgency=low

  * Correct typo in 0.9.9a-2 changelog entry
  * Disable more optimization with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt
  * Cache the configure test results as we're running configure several
    times
  * Fix building as root
  * Fix the clean target
  * Remove unexistant config options
  * Better check commad line
  * Use all the procs on i386 and amd64
  * Build a version of libvlccore without altivec (Closes: #523035)
  * Fix typo (thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso)(Closes: #528044)
  * Reword the command line to get full logs in bug/presubj (Closes: #527012)
  * Remove duplicate "extended Settings" entry in context menu
   (Closes: #526603) - thanks to Matt Kraai

 -- Reinhard Tartler <email address hidden> Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:28:15 +0200