Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 692761
Booting with external monitor plugged in disables built-in screen brightness adjustment until reboot
Last modified: 2012-08-07 14:10:12 EDT
On my Toshiba laptop, booting with an external monitor plugged into the VGA port disables adjustment of the built-in screen brightness setting until reboot, even if the VGA cable is later unplugged. Pressing Fn+F6/F7 to adjust laptop panel brightness pops up the OSD, which does respond to the keypresses, but the actual brightness of the builtin panel does not change if the laptop was booted with an external monitor plugged in. If I boot without an external monitor connected then it works fine. Also, if I originally booted with an external monitor plugged in, powertop reports the panel power setting at the same percentage as the OSD display, but the builtin panel brightness never visibly changes. Fedora 15 Alpha (power management test day snapshot) Reproducibility: 100% Smolt profile: http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_23bfefe1-3686-445b-a57b-7a661a3325f6
See also Bug 692759.
Is this fixed on F16? It seems to work for me on my wifes Toshiba.
Still broken for me on F16 on my own Toshiba laptop. Probably/possibly related to the fact that the VGA pipe can't be enabled unless I boot the machine with VGA plugged in.
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