Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 489666
ambient light sensor makes dellLcdBrightness emit wrong values
Last modified: 2010-02-26 07:33:44 EST
Description of problem: I have a Latitude E6400, with an ambient light sensor. When it is enabled, the utility dellLcdBrightness emits values as if the A-L-S was disabled. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): smbios-utils-python-2.2.13-1.fc11.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. enable the A-L-S (using fn-left_arrow) 2. run dellLcdBrightness to query for the current brightness Actual results: the values reported refers to a setup without an A-L-S. This means that if you want to change the brightness, the utility does nothing. Expected results: Additional info: The settings are applied but you won't notice them until you disable the A-L-S. gnome-power-manager uses this utility to change the brightness, so it will not work (the brightness applet won't work either). The most annoying thing is that if you change the brightness using the hardware keys (fn-up/down_arrows) gnome-power-manager reports the value using dellLcdBrightness, so you might think that the brightness is at maximum, while it's not
There is nothing to triage here. Switching to ASSIGNED so that developers have responsibility to do whatever they want to do with it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Since this bugzilla report was filed, there have been several major updates in various components of the Xorg system, which may have resolved this issue. Users who have experienced this problem are encouraged to upgrade their system to the latest version of their packages. For packages from updates-testing repository you can use command yum upgrade --enablerepo='*-updates-testing' Alternatively, you can also try to test whether this bug is reproducible with the upcoming Fedora 12 distribution by downloading LiveMedia of F12 Beta available at http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ . By using that you get all the latest packages without need to install anything on your computer. For more information on using LiveMedia take a look at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLiveCD . Please, if you experience this problem on the up-to-date system, let us now in the comment for this bug, or whether the upgraded system works for you. If you won't be able to reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. [This is a bulk message for all open Fedora Rawhide Xorg-related bugs. I'm adding myself to the CC list for each bug, so I'll see any comments you make after this and do my best to make sure every issue gets proper attention.]
Nicolo, is it still possible for you to test this bug with up-to-date packages, per Comment #3? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you. [Note please, that this is machine generated comment for large amount of bugs; due to some technical issues, it is possible we've missed some of the responses -- it is happens, please, just a make a comment about that; that we will see. Thank you]
Sorry, closed with INSUFFICIENT_DATA I don't have fedora installed now