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[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The hal support for smartdimmer isn't going away anytime soon, so for
these platforms it's perhaps possible to add back the gnome-power-
manager support for it. That's why there is a gnome-power-manager task
here.

But I see no chance of devkit-power ever getting support for
smartdimmer. The entire idea of smartdimmer is a hack, device drivers
belong into kernel just as any other backlight interface the kernel
offers. If X.org merges the smartdimmer logic in its xbacklight support,
that's fine of course.

This shouldn't affect KDE at all at the moment. KDE 4 uses hal.

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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
Status in “xorg-server” 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