2011/8/2 Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> > On Sun, 2011-07-31 at 15:37 -0300, Sergio Belkin wrote: > > I've read > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/Common#Laptop_screen_dims_when_switching_to_battery_power_or_idle_mode_but_never_brightens_again > > > > My system suffers the same symptoms but I use KDE. So it seems that is > > not GNOME restricted. > > > > > > Using F15 on x86_64 > > > > cat /sys/module/pcie_aspm/parameters/policy > > default performance [powersave] > > > > any ideas? > > That bug certainly was GNOME specific: it was a bug in > gnome-power-manager 's logic. There's no way that specific bug could > affect KDE, unless somehow you're running g-p-m in KDE. If you're seeing > a similar issue in KDE, it must track down to a different bug, so please > file it. Be aware, though, that the display dimming somewhat when you > disconnect the AC power is 'normal': both KDE and GNOME do this to save > battery power.
Yes of course Adam, I know it :) > The bug in this case was that when you re-connected to AC > the brightness did not increase again, but if you then disconnected from > AC once more the brightness would decrease further This is the symptom that I'm talking about! > - so you got stuck in > a descending spiral of darkness until the screen was stuck at its lowest > possible brightness setting until you adjusted it manually or rebooted. > If the screen dims somewhat (to, say, 50%) when you unplug, goes back up > to 100% when you plug back in, then dims back to 50% when you unplug > again, that's intended behaviour and not a bug (though if you don't like > it, it's configurable). > Well in this case when I plug AC, kde applet says Performance, but screen is still dimmed, I have to select again Performance and maximum brigthness come back! So it seems a kde bug, isn't it? Thanks Adam for your help, I remember you since Mandriva days :) > -- > Adam Williamson > Fedora QA Community Monkey > IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora > http://www.happyassassin.net > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- -- Sergio Belkin http://www.sergiobelkin.com Watch More TV http://sebelk.blogspot.com LPIC-2 Certified - http://www.lpi.org
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