screen dimming when mouse moved

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 01:33:33 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 16:17 -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> Beta 16 on Dell E1405 is borderline unusable because of screen
> dimming.  I can use the appropriate Fn key to brighten the screen,
> but it doesn't stay bright very long.  Worse/stranger: If after
> increasing brightness I wait a minute or two, and then type a key
> (or move the mouse) the screen immediately dims.  Perhaps some
> sensor or logic is backwards?

Probably. The relevant code was heavily rewritten and moved from g-p-m
into g-s-d quite recently so it likely has bugs. File a bug against
g-s-d with log messages and stuff. Richard Hughes should respond, as
it's all his code...
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