I also have this issue, on a Thinkpad T60 with Intel X3100 graphics. It happens with vlc, mplayer, and some games as well. I can additionally confirm that 'xset -dpms' also exhibits this behaviour, indicating that this issue resides in X's treatment of DPMS.
-- mplayer and vlc causes backlight to go to full brightness https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204805 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
