[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-04-17 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.] ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279308

[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-16 Thread Yuan Chao
No. Once reboot, the screen backlight brightness becomes normal (as before boot into ubuntu), but the keyboard backlight remains maximum even booted into OSX. However, the keyboard light level changes to the previous state after pressing the hotkey. This means that the keyboard light level is kept

Re: [Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-14 Thread Seth Forshee
On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 11:11:50PM -, Yuan Chao wrote: Joseph: Thanks a lot for the following ups. Actually, I forgot to mention that I've tried acpi_backlight=vendor on 13.10 (as my friend $4 suggested) and the same problem persists. As to the keyboard light, it's set to maximum at login

[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-13 Thread Seth Forshee
I looked into the screen brightness issue a little bit a while back. The reason that the brightness gets set to maximum at boot is that the firmware doesn't initialize some state memory with the brightness at boot, so when the brightness is read from the firmware it gets back a value which

[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-13 Thread Joseph Salisbury
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1279308 Title: [MacBook Air 6,2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn

[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-13 Thread Yuan Chao
Joseph: Thanks a lot for the following ups. Actually, I forgot to mention that I've tried acpi_backlight=vendor on 13.10 (as my friend $4 suggested) and the same problem persists. As to the keyboard light, it's set to maximum at login (lightdm?) screen, which it different from screen backlight.

[Bug 1279308] Re: [MacBook Air 6, 2] screen backlight brightness and keyboard light turn into fully-on after Grub boot with i915 driver

2014-02-12 Thread Yuan Chao
apport information ** Tags added: apport-collected saucy ** Description changed: Problem: Both the screen backlight brightness and keyboard light are turned on during the booting as tested on ubuntu 12.04.3, 12.04.4, and 13.10. Due to installation problem on 12.04, it's only tested with