Re: [gpm] LCD brightness

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:48 +0000, Jeremy Kenny wrote:
> Hi folks,  just a suggestion here, and certainly not a complaint or bug 
> report . . . .
> 
> I find the "Power Manager Brightness Applet 2.20.0" effects very 
> erratically on my laptop (HP Pavilion)
> 
> wont bore you with the details . . . . unless you want ?

Yes, please tell us what happens.

> Anyway, is it possible the current applet is maybe too complex for its 
> own good ?

Well, it's complex because the way brightness is set is very different
for lots of different hardware. It's possible you've been detected as
the wrong sort.

> Suggest replacing infinite slider with . . . . . 2 discrete radio 
> buttons on the gnome-panel . . . . . each button either increasing or 
> decreasing the lcd brightness by 10%
> 
> My rationale, is a sneaking suspicion that my video card (nvidia) wont 
> accept finer-settings, and recall from manually editing xorg.conf, that 
> it wont register brightness levels <40 %

Possibly. Can you attach the output of gnome-power-bugreport.sh pls.

Richard.