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[Bug 863769] Re: Display automatically dims in few seconds of inactivity to a black screen making the desktop unusable

 

I also have the same problem. My version of ubuntu is 11.10 as well.

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Title:
  Display automatically dims in few seconds of inactivity to a black
  screen making the desktop unusable

Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I have suspend and dim display brightness turned off when plugged in,
  but still laptop dims the brightness to 0 after a couple of seconds of
  inactivity. This makes the desktop totally unusable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: gnome-power-manager 3.2.0-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Oct  1 07:18:26 2011
  GnomeSessionIdleInhibited: No
  GnomeSessionInhibitors: None
  GnomeSessionSuspendInhibited: No
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110901)
  MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=aa1b7290-849f-4033-ac4f-10167fa1f1df ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
  SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  dmi.bios.date: 11/25/2008
  dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  dmi.bios.version: F.59
  dmi.board.name: 30CB
  dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
  dmi.board.version: 79.2E
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
  dmi.chassis.version: N/A
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.59:bd11/25/2008:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv9700NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30CB:rvr79.2E:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
  dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv9700 Notebook PC
  dmi.product.version: Rev 1
  dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
  gnome-power-bugreport: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

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