Update on DeviceKit

[Bastien Nocera]

On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 16:41 +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:38:11PM +0100, ext Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 12:05 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:52:08AM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > > - the hardware does the changes itself, but we want user-space to be
> > > > made aware of the changes ("laptop_panel.brightness_in_hardware" key in
> > > > HAL)
> > > 
> > > Key notifications are sent. We possibly still want something to bridge 
> > > these onto dbus, since we have something of an issue in X right now when 
> > > it comes to keycode use.
> > 
> > After some fixes by Richard, gnome-power-manager can use XBACKLIGHT just
> > fine, apart from the get/set being utterly slow. We're talking a third
> > of a second to set the backlight, compared to it being instant going
> > through HAL and the Dell smbios utilities.
> 
> If only we had some way to report and subsequently fix bugs. :)

I already filed it downstream:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445853

Let me know if you want an upstream bug, but I'd rather someone looked
at the code before taking my word for it that it's a driver bug.