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[Schmirrwurst <schmirrwurst@xxxxxxx>]

Martin,

I've red the thread you mentioned, and I found out in it, that it should
be fixed in xbacklight, but this could take quite a long time... and
there is need of a fallback solution !

How many years do people experiencing that problem (on hp, samsung,
sony, mac laptop...) are going to wait to have their laptop properly
working ? Even Microsoft is shipping a new software, are tell the user
they have to wait 2 years until another project close the gap...

I can understand that it is the right way, but how can we get a fallback
solution for karmic ???

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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