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[8.04 Hardy]Big decrease of brightness when on battery.

Asked by Zdenek Novotny

I am using ASUS F3Tc laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 with Gnome and Screenlets . When I am not connected to power, but just to battery and let the notebook some minutes without action, it automatically decreases brightness, which is correct power management action. Problem is, that the brightness should return to normal when I plug-in the power connector or just move mouse or press any button on keyboard. Instead of that, it stays with the decreases brightness and the only solution is restart and using Change LCD Function key.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#1

I see this too. Exact same problem and only using the laptop function keys returns brightness to whatever level. On mine, it dims it all the way which is fine but it should brighten it when you start working again. I think it's bug.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#2

I used the "create bug report" link on the left but it didn't do what I expected. It listed your problem under my name. You might want to add your experience. I'm going to edit it with my comments.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/214061

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Zdenek Novotny (zdenek-novotny) said : 		#3

Well, i agree, it is bug somewhere in power management. I didnt see that before. On any linux distribution. But on the other hand I must say, that Ubuntu is the most stable distro I have seen and this is still just beta under development.

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Jim Hutchinson (jphutch) said : 		#4

This is apparently fixed now. See the comment 5 by Ted Gould https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/199522

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