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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEEDINFO - backlight maxed out when switching from X to a tty"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83816#c12">Comment # 12</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEEDINFO - backlight maxed out when switching from X to a tty"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83816">bug 83816</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:chris@chris-wilson.co.uk" title="Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>"> <span class="fn">Chris Wilson</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Jani Nikula from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=83816#c10">comment #10</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Chris Wilson from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=83816#c7">comment #7</a>)
> > The bug is that intel_panel_enable_backlight() always sets the max value
> > ignoring the current user value.
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> That's not really true. It sets the max value if the userspace set the level
> to minimum before the backlight was disabled. Why does the userspace insist
> on setting backlight to min before disable?</span >
To put it another way: Why does the kernel insist on providing policy that
overrides userspace?</pre>
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