On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 21:11 -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote: > Fedora 14 (x86_64) on a Lenovo ThinkPad T510 an "nVidia Corporation > GT218 [NVS 3100M]" GPU. > > I normally don't use my laptop's built-in display when it's at > home, so I'm not exactly sure when it started, but I suspect that > the recent update to KDE 4.6 was probably the trigger. > > I can boot my system and log in to GNOME just fine. Logging in to > KDE, however, causes the brightness of my laptop display to become > unusably dim. This happens whether or not the laptop is running on > AC power. The screen does return to its normal brightness momentarily > when I connect AC power, but it then returns to its dim state. > > The KDE brightness controls are still set to full brightness; I can use > them to change the display from unusable dim to completely black and > back. > > The only way I have found to restore the display to its normal > brightness (until I log in to KDE) is to reboot. > > Anyone have any idea what might be going on? I really am completely > unable to use KDE this way. :-( I bet it has something to do with your power settings. Kstart->Settings-> System Settings -> Power Management-> Power Profiles -> Display Brightness. _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
