Bugzilla – Bug 326836
g-p-m: lowers brightness but increasing does not work
Last modified: 2007-09-22 19:57:18 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.
Created attachment 173691 [details] g-p-m debug messages
Then request it, but don't simply flag it as one. Because it's none
(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? :-)
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.
(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.
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).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 310273 ***