Bug 8174

Summary:	cannot adjust screen brightness in kde (battery monitor applet)
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Drew Edwards <drew>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	kdebase4-workspace-4.9.3-1.mga3.src.rpm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Drew Edwards 2012-11-21 18:54:19 CET

Description of problem:

Up-to-date Cauldron installation on lenovo x120e laptop.  Cannot adjust screen brightness via battery monitor applet.  I get a screen display that shows the brightness going up and down but the brightness does not actually change.  In xfce I can adjust screen brightness via an xfce app so this seems kde-specific.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Version     : 4.9.3
Release     : 1.mga3


How reproducible:

Click on battery monitor applet, move slider for screen brightness. Brightness does not change.

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Comment 1 Drew Edwards 2012-11-22 07:55:23 CET

More:  I ran xfdrake again and chose the proprietary driver (fglrx) and after rebooting the screen brightness adjustment in kde worked fine.  I ran xfdrake again, declined the proprietary driver, and after rebooting the screen brightness no longer works.

To summarize: it works with fglrx but it doesn't work with radeon driver.  Brightness adjustment in xfce via panel app works fine with either driver.

Comment 2 Drew Edwards 2012-12-16 23:01:38 CET

This is no longer a problem, do not know when it was fixed as I had been running proprietary driver.  Discovered the fix by accident when some upgrades in cauldron caused the system to default back to radeon driver.

Resolved.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED