Bug#485465: battle for the brightness

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote:
> H> Do I understand correctly, and now that you're using brightness_mode=2, you
> H> see no weird brightness changes when you lauch xdm, and your brightness keys
> H> work just fine?
> Yes, and yes.
> 
> (I am still observing how well brightness settings last through boots.
> I will mail back if they don't.)

They will, no worries about that.  The issue you can still have is that
something might decide to change the brightness just before shutdown, and
THAT changed brightness would be the one you'd get when you power up.

But apparently, nobody broke things that much yet ;-)

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh