Bug 205566 – x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel-2.1.1: xserver starts always with max. brightness

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Bela Waltoscynski 2008-01-13 07:44:04 UTC]

Using xf86-video-i810-2.1.1 the xserver (xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r2) always starts with max. brightness.
I use kdm. After the login screen the brightness is max. again even if I turned it down (with hardware keys) while in the login session of kdm.
kernel is gentoo-sources-2.6.23-r3
laptop is Samsung X20 1730 with interl 945 graphics.

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-01-24 13:54:09 UTC]

That's probably a KDE issue ...

But anyway, I've just added a snapshot of the upcoming 2.2.1 release, as upstream wants more testing before making official releases.

Please try this snapshot on top of xorg-server-1.4.0.90. If it isn't fixed, please open a bug in freedesktop's bugzilla [1] and paste the url here.

Thanks

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/

[Comment 2 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-02-27 12:28:23 UTC]

Ping :) Any updates here? I've just pushed 2.2.1 to portage. Could you try it out?

As I've said in comment #2, I think that this is a KDE issue. @KDE Herd, have you guys seen issues like this before?

Thanks

[Comment 3 Wulf Krueger (RETIRED) 2008-03-29 01:27:32 UTC]

 (In reply to comment #2)
> As I've said in comment #2, I think that this is a KDE issue. @KDE Herd, have
> you guys seen issues like this before?

Nope, sorry. I don't think this is ours. :)

[Comment 4 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-05-14 11:52:07 UTC]

Please try again with xf86-video-i810-2.3.0 or later, and possibly with another session and login manager than kdm.

You can use an .xsession script and maybe xdm too, that would help making sure where to lay the blame.

Thanks

[Comment 5 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-08-29 14:59:29 UTC]

Reassigning back to x11 as I am now on that alias.

[Comment 6 MarisN 2008-10-17 14:37:58 UTC]

Can not reproduce using reporters provided steps. Probably some laptop manufacturer specific daemon/applet is started during KDE start-up? Reporter probably should repeat test with fresh user account to see if KDE conf is one to blame.

x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2
x11-drivers/xf86-video-i810-2.4.2-r2
kde-base/kdm-3.5.10
kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r2

Dell Latitude D505 with i855gm

[Comment 7 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2008-10-24 00:16:12 UTC]

Bela,

Please try what was suggested in comment #6, hopefully with newer versions of xorg-server and xf86-video-intel.

Thanks