I used to have this problem, virtualbox could also reduce brightness. Now I'm using 9.04 development branch with a 2.6.28 kernel, this bug's disappeared.
2008/12/19 Sur Demir <surde...@yahoo.com> > I have the same problem on Intel GM965 X3100 running up-to-date 8.10. > Upgrading xserver-xorg-video-intel to 2.5.1 and libdrm to 2.4.1 did not > help. > However, disabling DPMS in Monitor section in xorg.conf helped, and now > mplayer does not dim display. > So, this looks like a DPMS issue. > > -- > mplayer brightness reduces on playback > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201544 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of a duplicate bug. > -- mplayer brightness reduces on playback https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201544 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
