ibook default settings: screensaver turns backlight back on
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver
Hi,
with everything left to default settings since install, (presumably) the screensaver turns on the backlight even after I manually switch it off.
xset dpms force off ; sleep 3 ; gnome-screensav
(and its brightness key equivalent) will result in a blank screen and backlight turning on after 3 seconds, regardless of battery or AC, so it is indeed the screensaver in the short run. If I simply turn down the screen brightness to off while on AC and come back 8 hours later, I see bright screensaver images (no blank screen). I have not yet dug into that case, but strongly suspect gnome-screensaver to be the culprit, too.
While there are lots of other bugs filed on backlight issues, this one is about default preferences. I would expect any kind of timeout/
hardware: ibook G4 1 Mhz,
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M9+ 5C63 [Radeon Mobility 9200 (AGP)] (rev 01)
install: breezy dvd, then apt-get dist-upgrade; tinkering with airport express, wpa and few other things, but nothing related.
Thank you.
edit: maybe I should have filed 2 separate bug reports:
* please make the backlight go off by default (at least after 8 hours)
* please make gnome-screensaver never turn the backlight back on (see also #46741 ?)
Sorry, I don't know how to split it...
| description: | updated |
| description: | updated |
| Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
| assignee: | nobody → dufresnep |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| tjr (rothe-johannes) wrote Re: [Bug 57101] Re: ibook default settings: screensaver turns backlight back on | #2 |
| Paul Dufresne (paulduf) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in gnome-screensaver: | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Can you try with latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.