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Bug#439744: reversion in Legacy Backlight Brightness support



Brice Goglin wrote:
> A different backlight regression has been reported in 2.1.1
>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11527
>     http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=438969

I'm seeing similar behavior to those with 2.1.0, but only if I use the
bios-controlled backlight setting keys. X doesn't notice when the
backlight is changed by that and starting mplayer switches it back to
the last brightness level X set.

> Could you try reverting the following commit from driver 2.1.1 ?
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-intel.git;a=commitdiff;h=a85dd7adc35601a988b1001e8b3c8aa4d53de0c0;hp=c989cb4897e2e2d395c52df4822290a767cdc866

Yep, with that reverted, xbacklight works well again.

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