https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225643 thoenig@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |kde-maintainers@suse.de ------- Comment #5 from thoenig@novell.com 2006-12-06 06:09 MST ------- (In reply to comment #0)
Changing the display brightness works fine using kpowersave. However when using the laptop hotkeys (Fn+F5/F6) for changing the brightness, only a message window shows up (it has the same look as when pressing volume hotkeys), indicating that screen brightness is being changed. Contrary to the expected behavior, only the LED brightness of the power-button on the laptop-chassis changes but not the display brightness.
That (stupid) application is KDE's KMilo plugin.
Apparently whatever program showing the message window is trying to change the brightness is using the sonypi module (when using spicctrl, the same effect is visible).
This is clearly defective. KMilo seems to detect that your system is a Sony laptop and simply "thinks" that for all such systems sonypi is in charge. This is wrong, of course.
kpowersave on the other hand appears to be using the sony_acpi module which is able to correctly set the screen brightness.
The hotkey handler should thus be modified to use sony_acpi or sonypi be fixed to correctly address the hardware.
Actually it is fine to have KMilo draw the on-screen-display. However, it should not blindly try to use sonypi for changing the brightness. CC'ing KDE maintainers. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.