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[Bug 289520] Re: GPM unresponsive for two minutes after startup on Macbooks

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From: Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:00:24 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 289520 <289520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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** Also affects: mactel-support
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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GPM unresponsive for two minutes after startup on Macbooks
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289520
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “gnome-power-manager” source package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

Many of the recent Apple MacBooks have a large number of LCD backlight levels. The GPM uses XRandR to modify the backlight. However, the gpm-brightness-xrandr smooth brightness function does not take the number of brightness levels into account. On recent Macbooks, this leads to some 20000 brightness-set calls on startup, an activity that takes about one and a half minute. During this time, GPM is not responsive. Attached is a patch that introduces scaled stepping, which fixes the problem.