Sorry, the problem happened with the version in experimental, which is actually old. Reverting to version in testing everything appears correct and works fine. Carlo.
2013/8/14 Patrick Matthäi <pmatth...@debian.org> > You realy should report such issues to upstream, since we can not do > *anything* about such issues. > > @Andreas and Michael: > Any ideas what we can do to avoid so much upstream-only related bug > reports? > > Am 14.08.2013 15:21, schrieb Carlo Marchiori: > > Some further information (copying from a report erroneously filed to the >> linux-image package). >> >> At first I could not control backlight at all. >> Then, following forums and wikis on the net i tried to pass the >> acpi_backlight=vendor parameter to the kernel, and now it works... a >> little >> bit. >> >> What works is that all methods, the keyboard special keys, xbacklight, >> gnome- >> control-center, all udpate the same file, in my case >> /sys/class/backlight/samsung/**brightness. >> >> But. First that file is reset to the maximum value at every restart. I >> worked >> around this by echoing something into it in /etc/rc.local. >> >> Second, and worst, when I change the file value at runtime (by any of >> the above >> methods), the value is applied... sometimes. I mean, I keep changing the >> value >> and once a in while the brightness changes, after 2, 5, 10 seconds, and >> I have to >> be lucky that it happens at the right brightness. If you just change the >> value >> without keeping trying, the value is not usually applied. >> >> Regards, Carlo. >> > > -- > /* > Mit freundlichem Gruß / With kind regards, > Patrick Matthäi > GNU/Linux Debian Developer > > Blog: http://www.linux-dev.org/ > E-Mail: pmatth...@debian.org > patr...@linux-dev.org > */ >
