Re: [gpm] brightness on Sony Vaio Laptop

[Ted Gould <ted ubuntu com>]

I was going to suggest that Eli create an app that waits for the
BrightnessChanged signal on the Blacklight DBUS interface.  But, I'm not
seeing that signal fired, am I missing something there?

		Thanks,
			Ted

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 22:16 -0500, Eli Dayan wrote:
> This is my first post to the list.  I have recently purchased a Sony 
> Vaio Laptop model #VGN-NR220E and have fresh-installed a copy of ubuntu 
> 7.10 onto it.  Gnome Power Manager loads on login, of course, and I have 
> tested both suspend and hibernate, and they both work as well.  What 
> does not work is anything relating to the setting of screen brightness, 
> both in Power Management Settings, or if I add a screen brightness 
> control to the panel.  It is my understanding that this is an issue with 
> Sony hardware itself (brightness keys on the keyboard do not work 
> either), however, I have been successfully able to change the screen's 
> brightness using xbacklight.  Any thoughts on having Gnome Power Manager 
> use xbacklight in a case like this?  I have never written any code 
> specifically for Gnome, but I would be interested to work on this.  It 
> would certainly be very helpful to the many Vaio users who are having 
> problems with screen brightness.  Thank you all for your time.
> 
> Ubuntu 7.10 (installed from LiveCD)
> GNOME Power Manager 2.20
> Kernel 2.6.22-14
> 
> Eli Dayan
> 
> 
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