#8442 NORM Not Tri: Backlight dim/off timers are too conservative

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#8442: Backlight dim/off timers are too conservative
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   Reporter:  gnu                  |       Owner:  cjb          
       Type:  defect               |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
  Component:  power manager (OHM)  |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:                       |    Keywords:  power        
Next_action:  design               |    Verified:  0            
  Blockedby:                       |    Blocking:               
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Comment(by cjb):

 > We currently wait *twenty minutes* before we do this, though we dim the
 backlight after a single minute.

 No, this isn't right.  Either you have power management turned on, in
 which case the backlight dims after a minute and then you suspend and then
 nothing further happens to the screen, or you have power management turned
 off, in which case the screen turns off but never dims.

 I haven't been working on the case where power management's turned off; I
 tend to think that people have no desire to save power in that situation.
 We could probably stand to lower these timeouts, though.

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