Bug 194807

Summary: PowerDevil INCREASES brightness on low battery, on some cases
Product: [Unmaintained] solid Reporter: Oren Held <oren>
Component: powermanagement-daemonAssignee: Dario Freddi <drf>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: sebastian
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oren Held 2009-06-01 00:42:40 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I tend to manually decrease the brightness (using my keyboard's brightness control keys).

When power profile changes, like in a low battery situation, PowerDevil sets the new brightness level as config'd in the profile, *regardless* of whether the brightness was *lower* than the profile settings.

So in effect, if I set brightness to minimum, on low battery event the brightness would go UP.
Comment 1 Sebastian 2009-11-06 11:10:29 UTC 
I have the same problem here. There should be a possibility to disable brightness adjustment from PowerDevil. Furthermore PowerDevil should check if the brightness is lower than determined for the lower energy profile.
Comment 2 Dario Freddi 2009-12-01 18:35:11 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198463 ***