Bug 276408 – gnome-base/gnome-power-manager: fails to dimm/switch off backlight the second time

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Zsolti 2009-07-03 23:11:09 UTC]

After the second time. When the backlight is already switched off and on again. The next cycles backlight wont be switched off again. It seems the timers are screwed after that.


Reproducible: Always




Its on a Macbook 2,1.

[Comment 1 Zsolti 2009-07-03 23:11:53 UTC]

Created attachment 196558 [details]
emerge --info

[Comment 2 Zsolti 2009-07-03 23:14:35 UTC]

btw. this happens to gnome-power-manager-2.24.4-r2 too. maybe it's the fault of gnome-screen-saver. i'm not sure where to report this exactly.
my gnome-screensaver-installed is: 2.26.1

[Comment 3 Rémi Cardona (RETIRED) 2009-07-04 06:57:12 UTC]

confirming, this has been going on for even longer. I think I started noticing it in 2.20 or 2.22.

Unfortunately, I've had other bugs to fix and this one is fairly low on my list (and now I used "xset" to turn off my screen...) so if you could open a bug in gnome's bugzilla and paste the URL here, that'd be great.

Thanks

[Comment 4 Zsolti 2009-07-04 13:54:36 UTC]

i played around a bit and tried different combinations. it seems that gnome-screen-saver is involved in this. when i turn off the screensaver,excatly the  inactivity timer, switching off screen/backlight works again several times.
should i open a new bugreport for gnome-screensaver?
maybe it's a bad interaction of both.

[Comment 5 Zsolti 2009-07-04 14:20:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> confirming, this has been going on for even longer. I think I started noticing
> it in 2.20 or 2.22.
> 
> Unfortunately, I've had other bugs to fix and this one is fairly low on my list
> (and now I used "xset" to turn off my screen...) so if you could open a bug in
> gnome's bugzilla and paste the URL here, that'd be great.
> 
a bugreport on gnome is still pending for some time.
see: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580292
i completed it.


> Thanks
> 

[Comment 6 Zsolti 2009-07-04 14:48:55 UTC]

added bugreport for gnome-screensaver upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=587748

[Comment 7 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-08-27 08:57:56 UTC]

should be fixed with xorg-server-1.6.3.901, could you try it out ?

[Comment 8 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-09-06 11:53:49 UTC]

Issue is fixed for me. If it's not for you feel free to reopen.

[Comment 9 Mehmet Giritli 2009-10-10 09:51:36 UTC]

Created attachment 206634 [details]
emerge --info

I still have the issue after x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2.

[Comment 10 Mehmet Giritli 2009-10-12 18:48:47 UTC]

So the issue is fixed not for x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-r2 but for 1.6.5

[Comment 11 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-11-02 21:31:13 UTC]

*** Bug 291557 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 12 Gilles Dartiguelongue (RETIRED) 2009-11-05 13:06:09 UTC]

*** Bug 286520 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***