On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Genes MailLists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Seems other events have stopped being processed as well - e.g. > > unplugging a/c and going to battery - laptop beeps - but screen no > longer dims - > > Again - I can dim screen by hand by doing something like this: > > echo '11' > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness > > This has been flaky a while but usually worked at least some of the time > - now its just not working period. > > I wonder if udev responsible for this? Looks like I upgraded systemd at > the end of last month to 189-4 ... seems unlikely it took me till last > weekend to notice this .. but I can be slow at times :-) > > kde had a bunch of updates sep 4 (4.9.0 to 4.9.1).. again a week or so back > > If anyone has suggestions how to get these working again would be > appreciated .. not fatal as I can do everything by hand but since things > used to work be ncie to get them working again. > > gene Any chance you may have a setting that could be changed in the KDE power management settings window to get this working again? -- mike c