Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Alexandre Fournier
Package: pommed Version: 1.26~dfsg-1 Severity: normal Hello, I noticed that for a couple of months the brightness control via Fn+F1 F2 keys behaves quite strangely. When changing the brightness with those shortcuts, the brightness gauge appears on the screen and seems to progress smoothly from

Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I repeatedly press the F1/F2 keys, with the worst results obtained when leaving the Fn+F1 key pressed. By contrast, if I press the F1/F2 every half second, the brightness behaviour seems to be reasonnably satisfying, but then it takes quite a long

Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Alexandre Fournier
Selon Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org: Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr wrote: Hi, I repeatedly press the F1/F2 keys, with the worst results obtained when leaving the Fn+F1 key pressed. By contrast, if I press the F1/F2 every half second, the brightness behaviour seems to be

Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr wrote: Hi, January 2007 white MacBook. Here is an output of lspci, FWIW: I'm sorry to say, but without similar reports from other users, this could be flaky hardware. JB. -- Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org | Debian, because code matters more Debian

Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Alexandre Fournier
Selon Julien BLACHE jbla...@debian.org: Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr wrote: Hi, January 2007 white MacBook. Here is an output of lspci, FWIW: I'm sorry to say, but without similar reports from other users, this could be flaky hardware. Now that you pointed that, I just tried to

Bug#536866: pommed: screen brightness control behaves erratically

2009-07-14 Thread Julien BLACHE
notfound 536866 1.26~dfsg-1 close 536866 thanks Alexandre Fournier bru...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Now that you pointed that, I just tried to manually set the brightness through the power management settings program, and moving the slider also yields similar (bad)results: tilting brightness and