On 05/29/16 11:35, Robert Moskowitz wrote:

> Been a while since I have been over here.  Here is the situation.
>
>
> I am running up to date Fedora 22 x64 on a Lenovo x120e using Xfce.  Install 
> goes back
> to about when 22 shipped.
>
>
> For some time now, the video would be dim, like at the powersaving setting, 
> but if I ran
> on battery and did no input for ~5 min then moved the mouse, I would get full 
> video.
>
>
> This little trick has stopped working.  Laptop display is dimmed.  I should 
> mention that
> the external monitor is running at max video brightness.  On boot, if I 
> <Alt-D>, the
> notebook video starts bright, but quickly dims.
>
> If I boot into bios, the video is dim.  There is no video brightness option.
>
>
> I have gone into powermanagement settings and set everything for max 
> brightness.  No
> difference.
>
>
> I have looked here for any messages like this and have tried looking for bug 
> reports
> with nothing coming up.  So any ideas? Recommendations?
>
Does your laptop have an ambient light sensor?  I had one go bad on an Acer 
laptop that
would cause trouble.  In my case it was flaky and would randomly dim/brighten.  
It has
been a while now, but I think I had to short it out to get things working well.


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