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October 25th, 2008, 08:48 PM
Hello!
I've got an issue with a HP 6720s laptop. It concerns the automatic brightness adjusting feature of Ubuntu (8.04 u-t-date), very similar to the bug described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg915816.html.
So, I'd like to use my laptop's screen at the lowest brightness level nearly all the time, whereas Ubuntu seemingly tries to adjust it for me, setting it to the very highest lvl on every occasion, eg. after 40 secs of inactivity (power_managment_delay), screen lock, screen blanking (yes! the screen ought to be blanked, and yet it gets black AND max-bright!; is that power saving?), vbox machine run, film playing, resuming from anything (sus-to-ram, s-t-disk), opening the lid.
This is VERY annoying and battery-unfriendly, and I have no clue how to disable it, although I've been struggling with this issue for a few weeks now...
I am ready to resign from all auto adjusting features, as I would preferably run the screen at lowest br. lvl as default (almost all the time), but with the ability to temporarily reset the brightness manually with hotkeys (fn+f7/8 keys work) - would be great if these re-set br. values were kept constant as well...
From the cited bug report I assume it is somehow possible by blacklisting a video driver - which one, where? Is there really no other way? Blacklisting a driver is probably going to lead to different troubles (performance, power)...
I am really quite desperate, as this feature appears to effectively disturb any work I intend to do with the notebook. I've dug through all settings I could find, certainly utilising Google as well. I've experimented with the GUI of gnome-power-management and I visited gconf also (especially sections gpm and g-screensaver)...
Thx!
I've got an issue with a HP 6720s laptop. It concerns the automatic brightness adjusting feature of Ubuntu (8.04 u-t-date), very similar to the bug described here: http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com/msg915816.html.
So, I'd like to use my laptop's screen at the lowest brightness level nearly all the time, whereas Ubuntu seemingly tries to adjust it for me, setting it to the very highest lvl on every occasion, eg. after 40 secs of inactivity (power_managment_delay), screen lock, screen blanking (yes! the screen ought to be blanked, and yet it gets black AND max-bright!; is that power saving?), vbox machine run, film playing, resuming from anything (sus-to-ram, s-t-disk), opening the lid.
This is VERY annoying and battery-unfriendly, and I have no clue how to disable it, although I've been struggling with this issue for a few weeks now...
I am ready to resign from all auto adjusting features, as I would preferably run the screen at lowest br. lvl as default (almost all the time), but with the ability to temporarily reset the brightness manually with hotkeys (fn+f7/8 keys work) - would be great if these re-set br. values were kept constant as well...
From the cited bug report I assume it is somehow possible by blacklisting a video driver - which one, where? Is there really no other way? Blacklisting a driver is probably going to lead to different troubles (performance, power)...
I am really quite desperate, as this feature appears to effectively disturb any work I intend to do with the notebook. I've dug through all settings I could find, certainly utilising Google as well. I've experimented with the GUI of gnome-power-management and I visited gconf also (especially sections gpm and g-screensaver)...
Thx!