Bug#680749: thinkpad: xfce and platform compete over brightness controls

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 680749 xfce4-power-manager
forcemerge 627336 680749
affects 680749 + src:linux
quit

Hi,

Gyuro Lehel wrote:

> [Subject: Re: Bug#680749: Additional info]

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> After some digging I had to realize, that the thinkpad_acpi module
> is functioning well, the error is in XFCE-s display brightness
> setter.
>
> This is a duplicate of:
> https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7541
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=627336
>
> Workaround solution:
> http://www.n0nb.us/blog/2012/02/restoring-screen-brightness-step-size-on-xfce4/

Thanks!  Merging.

Ciao,
Jonathan