Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

From: Jacob Lundberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:19:50 -0700

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 11:07:53AM +0100, Mark Hindley wrote:
> At least you have a workaround that will avoid the issue for you again. If you
> get any other ideas about clean fixes, do say.

Why not just refuse to *update* to 0 at shutdown.  It seems like 0 is a 
special case the user is fairly unlikely to have set it to themself (but 
if they do want 0 they are probably technical enough to update the 
setting file on their own).

-Jacob