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has caused the Debian Bug report #610278,
regarding eeepc-acpi-scripts: Backlight settings are forgotten when moving the
mouse
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610278: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=610278
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.11
Severity: normal
The backlight settings have no memory when going between "awake" or "asleep"
settings and back again. I do not mean actually shutting down the computer, I
just mean not doing anything for a while until the backlight dims.
For example, If I lower the backlight to the minimum, it will only stay at the
minimum until I don't do anything for a while. Then it will "Dim" the
backlight, which actually makes the backlight brighter. But that's expected.
I would expect there to be two brightness settings, one for when you are
active, and one for when it is resting. But the real problem is, that when I
move the mouse again, waking it up out of the "dimmed" state, it completely
ignores any settings I chose when it was last "awake", and rather than
returning to the minimum brightness, I chose minutes agol, resets it to the
default "awake" brightness.
This effectively takes away *any* ability I have to choose the backlight
brightness, because if I ever take a rest from typing or moving the mouse, my
backlight settings will be instantly lost forever. I really would be satisfied
with *any* solution that would cause the computer to remember my backlight
settings.
I have the lines
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
in /etc/default/grub . I'm not 100% certain which package this bug report
belongs in, but this is my best guess, as it seems to be responsible for
backlight settings.
I'm using a 1005PE netbook.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii acpi-support 0.138-5 scripts for handling many ACPI eve
ii acpi-support-base 0.138-5 scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii acpid 1:2.0.7-1 Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii pm-utils 1.3.0-3 utilities and scripts for power ma
ii rfkill 0.4-1 tool for enabling and disabling wi
eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends no packages.
Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
ii alsa-utils 1.0.23-3 Utilities for configuring and usin
pn libnotify-bin <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
There have been many changes to Debian since this bug was originally
reported. If you are still experiencing this issue with Debian 13 (or
with Debian 12 or Testing or Unstable), please report a new bug.
Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha
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