*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 201544 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201544
This is pretty much the same bug as #201544, just talking about brightness
going the other way.
#201544 was reported earlier so I marked this one as duplicate.
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug
The same for me using HP/Compaq 6720s laptop with Ubuntu Hardy, which is
up to date
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mplayer and vlc causes backlight to go to full brightness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204805
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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.
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mplayer and vlc causes backlight
I can confirm this bug with the Ubuntu 8.04 release candidate.
When playing a movie in VLC, the backlight on my laptop goes to full
brightness.
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mplayer and vlc causes backlight to go to full brightness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204805
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I've tracked this down to mplayer's disabling of DPMS while playing a
movie, which means the bug is in the DPMS portion of the X server.
To confirm this:
a) in mplayer-1.0~rc2/config.h change
#define HAVE_XDPMS 1
to
#undef HAVE_XDPMS
and rebuild - problem goes away (along with DPMS disabling
** Also affects: xlibs
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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mplayer and vlc causes backlight to go to full brightness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204805
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On my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pi 2515 laptop, it's the opposite of what
described above. That is, it turns the brightness to the lowest,
whenever I run mplayer, vlc, or even virtualbox!
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mplayer and vlc causes backlight to go to full brightness
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/204805
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** Description changed:
Binary package hint: mplayer
- I have an HP/Compaq 6720s laptop with Ubuntu Feisty, which is up to
- date.
+ I have an HP/Compaq 6720s laptop with Ubuntu Hardy, which is up to date.
Running mplayer or vlc to play a video seems to mess with the backlight
