Bug 321580 - Powerdevil turn off screen during login (black screen of death)
Summary: Powerdevil turn off screen during login (black screen of death)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: solid
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: powermanagement (show other bugs)
Version: 4.10.3
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR grave
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dario Freddi
URL: http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_ea...
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Reported: 2013-06-24 21:24 UTC by Petter Reinholdtsen
Modified: 2013-07-28 22:45 UTC (History)
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Description Petter Reinholdtsen 2013-06-24 21:24:35 UTC
On a laptop using the i915 kernel module, and where the brightness setting is inverted, KDE turn off the screen when I log in, and turn in back on again when the screen saver kick in.

The machine in question need and uses the invert_brightness=1 option passed to the i915 kernel module to avoid turning off the screen during boot, but the powerdevil KDE module do not seem to be aware of this and turn the screen off during login instead.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Buy a machine with Intel HD video card.
2. Install kubuntu using the i915.invert_brightness=1 boot option
3. Set it on first boot too.
4. Make sure to set it permanently by running this as root
  echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
  sudo update-initramfs -u -k all
5. Try to log into KDE.

Actual Results:  
The screen turn black.

Expected Results:  
I expected the screen to stay lit, and to be able to use KDE.

This is the brightness setting when the screen is lit:

% for interface in /sys/class/backlight/*; do echo $interface; cat $interface/max_brightness; cat $interface/actual_brightness; done
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0
100
0
%
Comment 1 Alex Fiestas 2013-07-28 22:45:24 UTC
This should be fixed in 4.11 since we are no longer setting the brightness to 0.

If this still happen in 4.11, please feel free to reopen the bug!