Comment 78 for bug 137598

There has been a pretty significant change in how GPM and power
management in general works between Jaunty and Karmic, a patch won't
easily work (dependencies have changed significantly, HAL has been
deprecated in favor of devicekit-power). Fixing bugs in power
management has been a moving target over the past couple months and is
only now beginning to stabilize with all the improvements. We're glad
that it will be working in Karmic.

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Kyle
Fazzari<email address hidden> wrote:
> That's alright Scott, I figured that would be the case– policies are in
> place for a reason. I'm just glad to know that it IS fixed! If the
> changes aren't too huge, I'd be willing to test a patch file if you've
> got one, I'm sure people subscribed to this would appreciate it. What do
> you think?
>
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> Screen brightness resets to default (maximum) on idle with AC plugged in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137598
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> Status in Gnome Powermanager: Fix Released
> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
> Status in gnome-power-manager in Ubuntu Hardy: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
>
> In Gutsy, if I adjust my screen brightness (i.e. to lower than the default, which is the maximum) and let the system sit idle (no mouse/keyboard movement) for a while, the screen brightness automatically adjusts to maximum on idle.  This is with the AC plugged in.  It seems like the brightness should NOT be changed automatically with the AC plugged in - and if it does, it should only be to dim it on idle and return to the previous level when there is system activity.
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