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oldmerovingian

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From: Denver, Colorado

Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 60

Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

I upgraded to GNOME 2.30 yesterday, and before installation it asked if I would like to switch my power settings from devicekit to upower.  If I am not mistaken, upower is newer and supposedly better.  In any case, I am now unable to control the brightness on my laptop.  Before I could only control it through GNOME's power settings.  However the bar that dims the screen is now gone.

Is there any way to go back to devicekit?  I tried downgrading, but it wouldnt let me.

allbluedream

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 155

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Do you have keyboard short-cut for doing this? On my laptop the gnome-panel applet is not working, but I can still adjust brightness with the keyboard.

oldmerovingian

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From: Denver, Colorado

Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 60

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

No, they FN keys do not work.  That is something I need to figure out.

Hyugga

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 335

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Hi, i have the same problem but my FN keys work fine. However when i raise the brigthness to its max a notification panel appears telling me the state of the battery.
If i add a brightness applet to the panel doesn't work either.

delectate

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Registered: 2010-04-05

Posts: 16

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Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

same question happened to me too

i have no idea to solve it

waiting for update

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Hyugga

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 335

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Today i ran pacman -Syu and i saw an upower update.
Did anyone try that update?

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-04-07 15:41:18)

oldmerovingian

Member

From: Denver, Colorado

Registered: 2010-03-19

Posts: 60

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

I installed it and it didn't change anything so far as I can tell.  I still cannot control the brightness in Gnome.

vkumar

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Registered: 2008-10-06

Posts: 166

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Same issue; but when I try to move the bar in the brightness applet, the applet just closes.

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xippi

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Registered: 2009-12-18

Posts: 1

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

same thing. upower 0.9.2-2

Hyugga

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 335

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Did anyone post this as a bug?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Did anyone post this as a bug?

yes: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19093

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Hyugga

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2010-03-26

Posts: 335

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

Excellent news! I've just updated the system with pacman -Syu and the brightness control work again!
But i still have the problem with the notifications when i raise the brightness to its max.
Happy

bwat47

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 638

Re: Cannot Control Brightness After GNOME 2.30

I still cant change mine, gnome brightness applet just doesnt do anything and closes when I click it.