The attachment is the output of stracing as a root user, running the following command: strace smartdimmer -s10
(this attachment is zipped since the uncompressed strace dump is large (141Kb) because there are a lot of gettimeofday(...) calls in the dump ** Attachment added: "strace with root permissions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11442877/smartdimmer.sudo.zip -- Must be root to change screen brightness [regression from gutsy] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/183365 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs