From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 3 21:07:52 2007 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5346116A401 for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from mo-p07-ob.rzone.de (mo-p07-ob.rzone.de [81.169.146.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A112613C461 for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from uwe@laverenz.de) Received: from athena.laverenz.de (p5480F3F1.dip.t-dialin.net [84.128.243.241]) by post.webmailer.de (klopstock mo48) (RZmta 4.4) with ESMTP id I0367aj13K3qeP for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:56:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81AE7E3DF1D3 for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:56:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from athena.laverenz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athena [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 05963-02 for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:56:01 +0100 (CET) Received: by athena.laverenz.de (Postfix, from userid 2000) id 659CDE3DF1D2; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:56:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2007 21:56:01 +0100 From: Uwe Laverenz <uwe@laverenz.de> To: gnome@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070203205601.GA6004@laverenz.de> Mail-Followup-To: gnome@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Organization: private site Sender: uwe@laverenz.de User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at laverenz.de Cc: Subject: gnome-power-manager misbehaviour X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining <freebsd-gnome.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2007 21:07:52 -0000 Hi, I have a problem with gnome-power-manager on a Thinkpad T41: in the BIOS, the diplay brightness ist set to "HIGH", which means that the diplay should not be dimmed when running on battery. A similar configuration can be made made in the gnome-power-manager settings, and I have set the display brightness to 100% for battery mode. But the power-management seems to ignore this, whenever I run the T41 on battery, the display is dimmed. I am quite sure that this is the fault of Gnome's power-management as it does not happen when the GDM login display is showed (no Gnome session running yet). Is there a way to change this misbehaviour? With the 14"-panel in IBM's T4x-series you need all the light you can get. :) thank you, Uwe