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Bug 286520

Summary: [gnome-overlay] gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-2.27.92-r1: Fails to switch off backlight
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Zsolti <zsolt>
Component: [OLD] GNOMEAssignee: Gentoo Linux Gnome Desktop Team <gnome>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: AMD64   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 288249    
Attachments: emerge --info
gnome-power-manager --verbose

Description Zsolti 2009-09-26 13:54:06 UTC
After the given time g-p-m fails to switch of the backlight of my inbuilt macbook monitor. It goes off for a second, than it switches on again.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Wait for the given time in g-p-m settings for backlight going off.
2. Backlight switches off for a second
3. It goes immediately on again

Actual Results:  
Backlight stays on

Expected Results:  
Baklight should stay off

See attached log of g-p-m running verbose.
Comment 1 Zsolti 2009-09-26 13:54:54 UTC
Created attachment 205289 [details]
emerge --info
Comment 2 Zsolti 2009-09-26 13:55:23 UTC
Created attachment 205290 [details]
gnome-power-manager --verbose
Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-09-26 14:07:25 UTC
We're still missing one patch to xorg-server to fully fix the issue.

I'll take care of that during the week.

Thanks
Comment 4 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-05 13:06:03 UTC
should be fine now according to bug #276408
Comment 5 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2009-11-05 13:06:09 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 276408 ***