Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Brightness changes spontaneously

[Karl Goetz]

On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:06:52 -0400
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 04:31:27PM -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > I have an external battery connected.
> > I reduce the brightness to conserve power.
> > Every so often the system spontaneously changes to
> > full brightness.
> 
> This bug was reported in 2006 and fixed upstream in April 2008, but
> the version of gnome-power-manager we are using (from debian lenny) is
> too old to include the fix.
> 
>   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=335673
> 
> I backported the fix to the version in lenny and metad.  I've attached
> a patch to this email, compiled it for mipsel/loongson, and put the
> new source and binary packages into:
> 

If you have a savannah account it would be good if the patch could go
against the relevant bug.
kk

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Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS)
Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer
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