hi,
I got fedoa 16's grub2 that manages the boot on my laptop
when my laptop is connected to battery the brightness in grub will be very low, when it's not the brightness will be maximum
is this just my BIOS or there is some sort of broken power management in grub2
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:13:15PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 04:34:04PM +0200, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
is this just my BIOS or there is some sort of broken power management in grub2
Your BIOS.
I should probably elaborate on this. Backlight control is typically very hardware specific, with the exception of the ACPI backlight interface that's present on some hardware. To change the backlight, grub would either need to know how to drive your backlight hardware directly (which would be a lot of code) or contain an ACPI interpreter and switch your machine into ACPI mode. It doesn't do either, which means it can't be grub changing your backlight. It's pretty common for BIOSes to do that on their own - Fedora's kernel has to explicitly ask them to stop doing that in order to avoid it conflicting with the OS-level power management. That means it's almost certainly your BIOS doing it for you in grub.