xorg intel driver in rawhide

Jesse Barnes jbarnes at virtuousgeek.org
Thu Mar 20 20:21:13 UTC 2008


On Thursday, March 20, 2008 1:02 pm Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> I've seen weird brightness stuff with the latest drivers, but have not
> yet filed a bug.
> At least my brightness keys work again, so I can rectify that :)
>
> When the screen saver kicks in the backlight goes off, and does not
> come back on it's own. mplayer does weird things to the backlight, too,
> sometimes setting it to full brightness, sometimes switching it off.
> Strangely none of the other media players do that :)

Yeah, I've had reports of both gdm and mplayer doing weird backlight stuff.  
Do they call into the DPMS routines themselves for some reason?  Anyone here 
familiar with that at all?

Thanks,
Jesse




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