Re: power plug screen brightness control (was: emacs icomplete-vertical for manpages chdir(2) fails)

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

rwhitlock22%gmail.com@localhost (Rob Whitlock) writes:

>https://gnats.netbsd.org/58257

>Out of curiosity, and for looking for commonalities, what system do you
>have this power plug/screen brightness problem on?


This is a BIOS power management feature, the running OS implements it
with some ACPI callback. I would guess it goes away when you change
a BIOS setting from something like 'Battery Optimized' to 'Max Performance'.

I don't think the BIOS has an individual setting just for the display.