[Bug 415023] Re: brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100

[robertzaccour at gmail.com]

Didn't work for me. I just removed power manager and that worked fine.
Anyone know how to workaround the bug of usb devices not being detected?

On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 2:29 AM, Beni Cherniavsky <cben at users.sf.net>
wrote:

> Another workaround (worked for me on MSI Wind): execute:
>
> xrandr --set BACKLIGHT_CONTROL legacy
>
> (I added it to Preferences -> Startup Applications.)
> It changes the way the intel driver controls the hardware, somehow avoiding
> the feedback loop.
>
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> brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023
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>
> Status in Gnome Powermanager: Unknown
> Status in KDE Base Workspace: Invalid
> Status in Ubuntu Release Notes: Fix Released
> Status in “hal-info” package in Ubuntu: Fix Committed
> Status in “kdebase-workspace” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “xfce4-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Invalid
> Status in “hal-info” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
> Status in “kdebase-workspace” source package in Lucid: Fix Released
> Status in “linux” source package in Lucid: Triaged
> Status in “xfce4-power-manager” source package in Lucid: Invalid
> Status in Fedora: New
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> Versions : karmic up to date (08-17-09) with gnome-power-manager version
> 2.27.5-0ubuntu2
>
> What should happen : brightness should not flash.
>
> What happens :
>
> Brightness changing seems broken on my MSI wind U 100.
>
> First in GDM it starts flashing for a good 30 seconds and then the same
> problem happened when the Gnome session begins.
>
> Whenever I try to  manually change the brightness  a bit too fast (using
> the sliders or the keyboard) it start flashing again.
>
>
>

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brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023
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