[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#610278: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Backlight settings are forgotten when moving the mouse

[Jeremy Salwen]

Package: eeepc-acpi-scripts
Version: 1.1.11
Severity: normal

The backlight settings have no memory when going between "awake" or "asleep"
settings and back again.  I do not mean actually shutting down the computer, I
just mean not doing anything for a while until the backlight dims.

For example, If I lower the backlight to the minimum, it will only stay at the
minimum until I don't do anything for a while.  Then it will "Dim" the
backlight, which actually makes the backlight brighter.  But that's expected.
I would expect there to be two brightness settings, one for when you are
active, and one for when it is resting.  But the real problem is, that when I
move the mouse again, waking it up out of the "dimmed" state, it completely
ignores any settings I chose when it was last "awake", and rather than
returning to the minimum brightness, I chose minutes agol, resets it to the
default "awake" brightness.

This effectively takes away *any* ability I have to choose the backlight
brightness, because if I ever take a rest from typing or moving the mouse, my
backlight settings will be instantly lost forever.  I really would be satisfied
with *any* solution that would cause the computer to remember my backlight
settings.

I have the lines

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet acpi_osi=Linux"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

in /etc/default/grub .  I'm not 100% certain which package this bug report
belongs in, but this is my best guess, as it seems to be responsible for
backlight settings.

I'm using a 1005PE netbook.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts depends on:
ii  acpi-support                  0.138-5    scripts for handling many ACPI eve
ii  acpi-support-base             0.138-5    scripts for handling base ACPI eve
ii  acpid                         1:2.0.7-1  Advanced Configuration and Power I
ii  pm-utils                      1.3.0-3    utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  rfkill                        0.4-1      tool for enabling and disabling wi

eeepc-acpi-scripts recommends no packages.

Versions of packages eeepc-acpi-scripts suggests:
ii  alsa-utils                    1.0.23-3   Utilities for configuring and usin
pn  libnotify-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

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