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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Schmirrwurst [2009-07-22 17:30 -0000]:
> If this has to be fixed in gnome-power-manager, which package is
> repsponsible for kde ??  I've seen that the kde power management is
> still relying on hal-power under karmic....

Well, it really needs to be fixed in X.org (the XBACKLIGHT extension),
in hal, DevKit, or anywhere else there is simply no way to get it
right (if you consider multi-monitor setups, xrandr configurations,
etc., and also the fact that X.org _also_ controls the backlight in
some way).

Please see
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-July/000268.html

for some details.

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no backlight support for laptop (hal depreciation regression)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/385723
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
Binary package hint: devicekit-power

A lot of laptop have no backlight (brightness support) because of missing kernel support, and waiting for fix in hal...
In fact, the utility smartdimmer, in main repository, is providing everything need : a get and set method for backlight...

As hal will be depreciated, it would be nice, if it could be fixed in devicekit... and people having vaios, samsung and so could after a couple of years have full power management !

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 10 23:54:32 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: libdevkit-power-gobject1 008-1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-8.9-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-power
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-8-generic x86_64