Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Package: initscripts; Maintainer for initscripts is Devuan Developers <devuan-dev@lists.dyne.org>; Source for initscripts is src:sysvinit.

Reported by: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>

Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:22:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Found in version 2.96-7+devuan1

Fixed in version 3.06-4devuan3

Done: dak@devuan.org

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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script sets
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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

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Devuan bug report logs - #617 initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display

Devuan bug report logs - #617
initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to zero, thus blanking laptop display