Re: [gpm] Disabling backlight control entirely

[Jacob Rau <jacob rau gmail com>]

Forgot to send this to the list.

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Subject: Re: [gpm] Disabling backlight control entirely
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 06:43:54 -0400
From: Jacob Rau <jacob rau gmail com>
To: Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>
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Richard Hughes wrote:
> Set /apps/gnome-power-manager/backlight/enable to false in gconf-editor.

Hmm...not to come across as a twat, but that seems to have had no effect.

Since I'm running 2.24.2, which as I understand is very old, I figure
this probably won't be useful, but here it is anyway. I'm actually
trying to quantify it a bit better than "it's broken"; from what I can
tell there's two problems: at boot time, regardless of prior backlight
levels, the brightness is forced to 100%; I can turn it down, but then
after a few seconds, it is forced to 100% again. This has happened
intermittently, but in one session it was repeatedly doing this.
Sometimes it seems related to me pressing keys on the keyboard, but not
all the time.

Is there a .deb package available for Ubuntu Jaunty with 2.26? That
would require replacing HAL as well, right? It might start making sense
for me to get my feet wet here, at least.

Jacob