On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:09 AM, William Brown <william(a)firstyear.id.au> wrote:
On 05/09/2013, at 9:32, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam(a)courier-mta.com> wrote:
> richard.vickeryrv(a)gmail.com writes:
>
>> Has anyone had the problem where the screen dims very close to black the moment
Fedora start or finishes booting after the bios has booted up?
>
> Laptop?
>
> Your laptop probably has an ambient light sensor, and the screen brightness gets
autoadjusted based on its reading; either that, or Fedora is restoring the saved display
brightness setting.
>
> Your keyboard must have an ACPI keystroke combination that adjusts screen brightness,
and/or ambient light sensor on/off.
Linux doesn't work with ambient light sensors.
This is not true. My ambient light sensor works just fine here.