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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From: Mark Hindley <mark@hindley.org.uk>
To: Martin Steigerwald <martin@lichtvoll.de>
Cc: 617@bugs.devuan.org, Jacob Lundberg <jacob@gnifty.net>
Subject: Re: bug#617: initscripts: brightness init script sets brightness to
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Martin,

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 11:19:17AM +0100, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> I'd really welcome this after I "bricked" another device due to exactly 
> this bug. I needed to put GRML to an USB stick and boot from there in 
> order to recover.

How does the attached patch look? Are you able to test?

Thanks.

Mark

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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