FS#19943 - [nvclock] smartdimmer changes brightness in fullscreen youtube videos with nvidia driver 256.35-1

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Thursday, 24 June 2010, 06:38 GMT
Last edited by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 14:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages
Status Closed
Assigned To Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
I'm using smartdimmer (nvclock) for brightness control of my nvidia 8400M GT in my Sony Vaio VGN-NR21S laptop.
However after installing the latest 256.35-1 driver from [testing] I noticed that when I go fullscreen in a youtube video the brighness goes up to 100%.
A "smartdimmer -s 35" brings it back down. Going fullscreen changes it to 100% again.


Additional info:
-Arch 32-bit with kernel 2.6.34-2
-nvidia 256.35-1
-nvclock 0.8b4-1
-xorg-server 1.8.1.902-1

Steps to reproduce:
this was testet with firefox and uzbl-browser and a youtube video.
I have the line "smartdimmer -s 35 &" in my .xinitrc file so when I boot my computer it sets this level of brightness. When I click on fullscreen in a youtube video birghtness goes up to 100. This never happened with drivers 195.36.31-1 and previous ones.
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Closed by  Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer)
Wednesday, 22 December 2010, 14:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Upstream
Additional comments about closing:  Reporter confirmed that the bug exists on Ubuntu 10.10 as well, so we assume it's an upstream bug. Please contact upstream.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Friday, 25 June 2010, 13:41 GMT
what is the reason for task closure request? is it duplicate, not a bug?
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Friday, 25 June 2010, 14:10 GMT
well...I tested this with Arch 32bit and went back to Arch64 today. There have been some updates in the last few hours. The nvidia driver went from [testing] to [extra] and now this is not happening anymore. (maybe due to nvidia-utils 256.35-4 (it was 256.35-1) when I tested it. Or maybe anything alse around it was updated, I don't know. But right now it's working just like it should. Brightnes is kept at the same level when I go fullscreen in flash movies. (this bug didn't just happen with youtube but any other flash site, too)

Greets
Andreas

P.S. sorry I'm new to reporting bugs so I'm not quiet familiar with the correct procedure...
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Monday, 28 June 2010, 15:48 GMT
I've found out that this brightness issue happens in combination with wine. (in the latest version bin32-wine 1.2-rc5) if wine is not installed the brightness doesn't change in fullscreen. If wine is installed it changes brightness to 100% in fullscreen.
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Sunday, 04 July 2010, 07:59 GMT
this bug seems to be related to wine upstream so I reported it to the wine forum, too.

http://forum.winehq.org/viewtopic.php?t=8867&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Wednesday, 07 July 2010, 06:22 GMT
now I have gnome installed (I was on awesome wm before) and now it's happening even without wine beeing installed.
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Tuesday, 20 July 2010, 05:49 GMT
interesting...with a 32bit installation and flashplugin and the packages above I get the birghtness issue in fullscreen. With Arch64 and nspluginwrapper-flash I can go fullscreen and brightness stays the way it should.
Comment by Andreas Marschall (Kodama) - Friday, 13 August 2010, 07:43 GMT
even if wine is not installed at all this also happens with linux games like for example sauerbraten or teeworlds.
Comment by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Monday, 15 November 2010, 00:34 GMT
Can anyone move this to the [community] bugtracker and assign it to me, please?
Comment by Lukas Fleischer (lfleischer) - Thursday, 18 November 2010, 11:44 GMT
So, could you test with current Nvidia drivers and wine, please?

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