Bug 326836

Summary:	g-p-m: lowers brightness but increasing does not work
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Timo Hoenig <thoenig>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	coolo
Version:	RC 1	Flags:	coolo: SHIP_STOPPER-
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	g-p-m debug messages

Description Timo Hoenig 2007-09-20 14:45:59 UTC

g-p-m: lowers brightness but increasing does not work

When hitting the hotkey for brightness down, g-p-m sets the brightness level to the lowest value.

-> it should only lower the level by one

When hitting the hotkey for brightness up, g-p-m fails to raise the britghness.

-> it should increase the brightness by one

For some systems the lowest possible value shuts off the display light completely. As raising the brightness is impossible after that I request this to be a ship stopper.

Comment 1 Timo Hoenig 2007-09-20 14:46:31 UTC

Created attachment 173691 [details]
g-p-m debug messages

Comment 2 Stephan Kulow 2007-09-20 14:47:07 UTC

Then request it, but don't simply flag it as one. Because it's none

Comment 3 Timo Hoenig 2007-09-20 14:49:40 UTC

(In reply to comment #2 from Stephan Kulow)

> Then request it, but don't simply flag it as one. Because it's none

How do I request it?  File a bug? :-)

Comment 4 Mark Gordon 2007-09-20 20:44:03 UTC

Any chance this is related to bug #308264 ? Is this a ThinkPad?

FWIW, I'm having brightness hotkey problems, but I'm generally able to adjust brightness with the power manager brightness applet.

Comment 5 Timo Hoenig 2007-09-20 21:02:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #4 from Mark Gordon)

> Any chance this is related to bug #308264 ? Is this a ThinkPad?

Nope, it's a SONY Vaio.
 
> FWIW, I'm having brightness hotkey problems, but I'm generally able to adjust
> brightness with the power manager brightness applet.

Could you please elaborate?  Probably in a different bug in order not to mix up things.

Comment 6 Mark Gordon 2007-09-20 21:26:58 UTC

Not a bug, but a possible workaround.  There's a brightness applet that can (for me, at least) be used to adjust screen brightness when the hotkeys aren't working (assuming of course that the screen is bright enough for me to find the applet in the first place).

Comment 7 JP Rosevear 2007-09-22 19:39:40 UTC


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