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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Martin,

Thanks for your analysis. At least that makes sense, even if a clean solution is
not immediately obvious.

Creating and artificial minimum seems rather arbitrary and would a minimum of,
say, 20% of the maximum value even be sane and suitable on all hardware? I don't
have any suitable hardware for real testing, so would have to rely on reports
from you and others.

Getting all DEs to cooperate in unblanking seems a tall order.

I agree the script seems suboptimal in many ways.

Maybe we could support configuring a minimum in /etc/default/brightness?

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.

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