I don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s a bug but having successfully installed netrunner 12.12 x64 on my acer aspire laptop it’s now started to do something weird; after about 10 seconds the screen brightness widget appears all by itself and turns down the screen brightness to 60%…i thought at first that it must be me and that i’d somehow caused this to happen by messing with settings but i can’t see anything that i’ve done and i can’t stop it from happening - it’s so annoying! can anyone please help?
this might be an upstream kde bug, since the screenbrightness plasmoid was changed to qml:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310377
You can submit a confirmation that the bug still exists in 4.9.4, maybe its fixed in 4.9.5 though, then you’d have to wait for kubuntubto backport it.
thanks this is def a kubuntu-based problem as i installed linuxmint 14 kde and the same thing happened with that…i think for the moment i will give kde a miss
It seems that this bug is fixed in KDE 4.9.4 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302160, so just update your system or try Netrunner 12.12.1
I just got my Samsung N102 netbook to work. Brightness worked fine w Live CD. However it’d boot w minimum brghtness setting, hence barely readable.
What worked with me was to edit -as root or sudo- these lines of the file /etc/default/grub :
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“”
To be:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“quiet splash pcie_aspm=force acpi_backlight=vendor”
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=“acpi osi=Linux”
Then:
sudo update-grub
… and reboot
Hope this helps someone, though the thread is fairly old.
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