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Bug 694938 - Shouldn't handle brightness/backlight keys when the hardware already does that
Shouldn't handle brightness/backlight keys when the hardware already does that
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672380
Product: gnome-settings-daemon
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.7.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-settings-daemon-maint
gnome-settings-daemon-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-03-01 16:04 UTC by Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity)
Modified: 2013-03-01 16:13 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Mantas Mikulėnas (grawity) 2013-03-01 16:04:51 UTC 
When I press a "brightness up" or "brightness down" key, the LCD backlight is adjusted twice – once by the hardware, once by GNOME. This means that in GNOME, I only get five brightness levels instead of 10 elsewhere. (The adjustment by GNOME sometimes even lags a little, if the system load is high.)

Is there a way to avoid g-s-d adjusting the backlight when it's already done by hardware?

g-s-d 3.7.90
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2013-03-01 16:12:53 UTC 
Why does the hardware send a key event when it's already changed the brightness?

Is this an ASUS machine? If so, it's bug 672380.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-03-01 16:13:35 UTC 
Confirmed as being an ASUS machine on IRC.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672380 ***