Description of problem: Brightness doesn't work in xfce4.6 on a HP dv9750ed laptop. If unplugged from power, brightness doesn't decrease; also, all hotkeys and fn keys work ok, but if one tries to set the brightness up/down using fn+F7/F8 (brightness down/up) the small brightness window appears, but nothing else happens. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.6 How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1.Try setting the brightness from fn keys 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
I would suspect this is a hal issue rather than a Xfce one. Some questions: 1. Is gnome-power-manager running? 2. Is xfce4-power-manager running? 3. Does the brightness adjustment work in the gdm login screen before you login?
You need to run gnome-power-manager, xfce4-power-manager does not handle brightness.
hal should be handling this these days I thought... It works fine for me here with xfce4-power-manager.
HAL is just the mechanism, not the policy agent.
ok. What would be handling the up/down brightness keys then? Or rather, what is handling them for me, but not for the reporter?
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
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Same problem on Acer Aspire 5740 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=539961#c9
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It still does not work.
Then please be so kind as to anser the questions in comment #1. Thanks!
xfce4-power-manager running, gnome-power-manager - is not. On login screen even on-screen display level do not appeared.
Thanks for your feedback. Can you please install gnome-powermanager and see if it works on the login screen or in Xfce if you use gnome-power-manager instead of xfce-power-manager? When you reply to the questions, please clear the needinfo flag. TIA!
May be you mean gnome-power-manager? I do not see gnome-powermanager in repositories. I install gnome-power-manager. How it supposed should be properly swaped? Should I delete xfce4-power-manager first?
On the login page, gnome-power-manager is already be running. To test in the Xfce session, disable xfce4-power-manager and activate gnome-power-manager instead in xfce4-session-settings. (clearing the NEEDINFO flag for you now. Thanks a lot for all your feedback).
BTW: Still works for me here on Asus after upgrading to F13 branch now, so I don't think this is an issue with gnome-power-manager but with hal.
Now indication appeared, but real brightness still not touched. I assume NEEDINFO canceled after answer, or not? How I can explicit clear it? I only seen flag to request needinfo...
(In reply to comment #17) > Now indication appeared, but real brightness still not touched. Ok, then it's not a power-manager problem, nether GNOME nor Xfce. Reassigning back to HAL. Richard, please provide the necessary questions and hints to debug this problem and reassign it to kernel or whatever component you think is to blame. > I assume NEEDINFO canceled after answer, or not? How I can explicit clear it? By marking the checkbox "I am providing the necessary info..." just below the comment field when you reply to a bug which is needinfo. Pavel, what hardware are you running? Can you please give us the link to your smolt profile?
(In reply to comment #18) > > I assume NEEDINFO canceled after answer, or not? How I can explicit clear it? > By marking the checkbox "I am providing the necessary info..." just below the > comment field when you reply to a bug which is needinfo. As I say, there no such checkbox, only text: "Additional information was requested for this bug. Adding comment will automatically clear needinfo request from you." > Pavel, what hardware > are you running? Can you please give us the link to your smolt profile? Acer Aspire 5740. Smolt info: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_8f1d4de8-7aad-468b-9527-7b942c39e1be
Thanks for the feedback. Unfortunately this bug report lacks an important information: What version of xfce4-power-manager did you use then you reported the bug? 0.8.5 included a couple of fixes for situations where HAL reported negative brightness levels. Can you please test it? It is already in the F13 repositories, for F14 use https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xfce4-power-manager-0.8.5-1.fc14
Obviuosly, I don't know/remember the version; I have just upgraded to F14 updates-testing and the version is 0.8.5-1 and it doesn't work.
Thanks for the feedback. Can you also test with gnome-power-manager again? Richard, how can we debug this?
Sorry guys, my bad. xfce4-power-manager works. gnome-power-manager does not under XFCE.
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