On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:21 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 23:13 +0000, Tommy He wrote: > > The brightness shortcuts don't work, either. There is no slider in the > > place where it used to be. gnome panel applet reported unable to > > acquire the laptop LCD screen brightness information. > > > > No matter I use Nvidia binary driver from rpmfusion nor nouveau > > gallium3d driver, the situation remains the same: No way to adjust the > > brightness. > > > > Running on Fedora 13 Alpha LiveCD does not make any difference. No > > such problem with previous Fedora release. I used to run the same > > nivida binary driver on Fedora 12. Slider was there. > > > > http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_0b8133aa-815e-4c11-9e5f-f5ca20f88bb6 > > > > My dmesg message below: > > > > http://pastebin.ca/1830842 > > > > I will see what happens on other laptop. > > I believe screen dimming is usually implemented in the ACPI layer, not > in the graphics driver. It's nothing to do with the _graphics card_ - > it's the brightness of the monitor itself that's changed. In the same > way as nothing changes in what the graphics card is doing if you just > reach out and hit the brightness control on your desktop monitor. > > So the fact that you didn't see it in the past with the same video card > driver doesn't really matter. This is likely a kernel bug of some kind. > Could you try booting with various different kernels to see if you can > isolate exactly when it broke? Just saw a changelog go through which probably explains this: ----- gnome-power-manager-2.29.91-2.fc13 (FEDORA-2010-4350) Update Information: This update re-enables brightness changing support through HAL for some graphic cards. * Thu Mar 11 2010 Bastien Nocera <bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx> 2.29.91-2 - Update to 2.29.91 - Revert HAL removal, or some machines wouldn't have brightness handling any more ----- so yeah, it was a g-p-m change, update your g-p-m and it should work again. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
