Bug 8305

Summary:	GNOME OSD for volume and brightness FN keys not displaying correctly
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Bo Lan <lanbo64>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED OLD	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	mageia
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	The icons cannot be capture, so it is a camara shot.

Description Bo Lan 2012-12-05 14:26:10 CET

Description of problem:

I use Gnome3 (Gnome Shell) since it was release, but in our distro, some feelings are very strange:

1. When I use my laptop FN keys to change sound volume or brightness, the icons are not normal and useless. I cannot know what sound or brightness level I am, because they are totally white. (see attached)

2. I think my fglrx has been installed well, but the brightness cannot change smoothly, and it is choppy. I can totally understand that we can do nothing about commercial drivers. However, is it good to use testing version (see attached) for a future distro release(Mageia 3)?

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


How reproducible:
Every time I turn on my laptop and use FN key to change sound and brightness.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install gnome version of Mageia 3 in a AMD laptop.
2. Use FN key to change sound and brightness.
3. See the icons and feel the changing if it is smoothly or not.

Comment 1 Bo Lan 2012-12-05 14:30:52 CET

Created attachment 3197 [details]
The icons cannot be capture, so it is a camara shot.

Comment 2 Martin Whitaker 2013-03-17 15:40:26 CET

I can confirm this bug is still present in Mageia 3 beta 3. It is not confined to AMD graphics - I have also seen it on a machine with Intel graphics. It is also not confined to GNOME Shell - I am using fall-back mode.

Just to restate, there are two separate problems here:

1) The GNOME on-screen display (OSD) for the sound volume and brightness FN keys no longer displays a bar graph indicating the current setting and is no longer themed correctly (should be black background with the Adwaita theme).

2) The resolution of the brightness control has been reduced. With Mageia-2/GNOME 3.4 my laptop has 5 brightness levels available. With Mageia-3/GNOME 3.6 this has been reduced to 3 levels. This also applies when using the GNOME system settings tool - and the steps are no longer spaced over the full slider (maximum brightness is reached when the slider is at about 15%).

I would assume these are upstream bugs, but Google hasn't found me anyone else reporting these issues.

I've taken the liberty of editing the bug summary to make it more explicit.

CC: (none) => mageia
Summary: Some user experiences (icons) in Gnome Shell is very strange. => GNOME OSD for volume and brightness FN keys not displaying correctly

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2015-04-17 22:54:40 CEST

Sorry, but this bug saw no action since over 2 yrs ago. 
No cauldron package has stayed the same since then.

Closing as OLD

Please reopen if this report is still valid for _current_ cauldron and/or fully
updated Mageia 4

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