Me too, Everytime I start VLC Player or MPlayer (or SMPlayer) or a VirtualBox Virtual Machine (any guest OS), my monitor brightness goes up to 100%.
My graphics card is a Intel 965 GMA X3100 on Ubuntu Hardy Heron with the 2.6.24-23 kernel and the driver being xserver-xorg-video-intel Version: 2:2.2.1-1ubuntu13.8 -- [Hardy] [regression] gdm, opengl apps and vlc reset brightness to xbacklight value (i915) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/201933 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