Bug 268115

Summary:	No brightness steps with Thinkpad Z61m in Gnome
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Felix Rommel <felix.rommel>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	sreeves
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Brightness goes directly to min if pressing Fn+Pos1 Brightness goes directly to max if pressing Fn+End

Description Felix Rommel 2007-04-25 20:25:04 UTC

Alpha1 + Alpha2/3 updates

Description:
I cannot change brightness in small steps on my Thinkpad Z61m in Gnome

How to reproduce:
If I press Fn+Pos1 brightness goes to max and if I press Fn+End brightness goes to min without any steps - see screenshots.

ouput of powersave -L:

Available brightness levels: 8

In Ubuntu 7.04 brightness levels do work in Gnome - not perfectly but I have a few steps  between min and max.

Comment 1 Felix Rommel 2007-04-25 20:25:49 UTC

Created attachment 134448 [details]
Brightness goes directly to min if pressing Fn+Pos1

Comment 2 Felix Rommel 2007-04-25 20:26:50 UTC

Created attachment 134449 [details]
Brightness goes directly to max if pressing Fn+End

Comment 3 Holger Macht 2007-04-28 15:56:11 UTC

I suspect two applications catching the same button event and changing the brightness at the same time. gnome-power-manager and the gnome-mixer-applet (whatever it is called exactly) for instance.

Does 'powersave -k u' (brightness up) and 'powersave -k d' (brightness down) work correctly?

Anyway, the powersaved doesn't change the brightness. That's either the hardware itself or the gnome desktop.

Comment 4 Felix Rommel 2007-04-28 16:16:04 UTC

> Does 'powersave -k u' (brightness up) and 'powersave -k d' (brightness down)
work correctly?

Yes, that works without problems - there are 8 steps available from 0 to 7.

Comment 5 Scott Reeves 2007-10-02 20:27:53 UTC

Could you try running - 
"killall gnome-power-manager"
"gnome-power-manager --no-daemon"

then try adjusting the brightness. Are you getting output similar to - "GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_value_set_int: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_INT (value)' failed"  ?


if so see - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=310273

Comment 6 JP Rosevear 2007-10-31 00:37:30 UTC

No response in several weeks.  Going to presume this is a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 310273 ***