Bug#432516: xbacklight: randomizes brightnesses on i810

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Helmut Grohne wrote:
> Package: xbacklight
> Version: 1.1-1
> Severity: important
>
> First of all: It does something! Great work! Unfortunately it's not
> really ready to use on my system yet. Especially I don't really know
> which package this bugreport really applies to, so please forward it to
> whatever package you think to be more appropriate.
>
> Hardware: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics
> Controller driven by i810 (xserver-xorg-video-intel).
>
> Observation: When running xbacklight --set somevalue it flickers a bit
> and seems to set a random brightness where setting to some value always
> results in the same brightness. 100% looks like 50%, 98% looks like
> 100%, 50% looks like 100% again with other values in between. I have not
> further investigated this, but can do so if needed.
>   

Is it better with xserver-xorg-video-intel 2.1.0 (currently in testing) ?

Brice