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hi guys,
very strange problem here...using XBMC 8.0/Atlantis with the Mediastream skin.
i left my XBMC running and shut the TV off. came back a few days later and shut XBMC down, but my pc screen stayed dim like the XBMC screensaver dimming was still on. even stranger, i restarted my pc, and shortly after i log on to windows...it dims again, even though XBMC isn't running yet! i thought for a second that it was just a really weird coincendence, but when i start XBMC again, the brightness goes back to normal, and then dims again on exit. no change if i shut off the XBMC screensaver altogether or change the dimming options.
how can i fix this? i did some searching and came up with nothing...
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Same happening to me and i could not replicate to report it.
I found a shut down and restart fixed it. Specifically a reboot did not.
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I have this problem also... I don't use the "dim" screensaver because of that, when I shut down XBMC with the screensaver active, the whole desktop is dimmed and I have to to go to the brightness options of the video card and change it back to normal...
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If you can replicate this grab a debug log. I have tried but I cant replicate it.
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It has happened to me also with catalyst ATI drivers.
Basically to reproduce the problem you wait until the screen saver dim comes on. Turn off your HDTV. When you turn it back on, everything in Windows remains dim (xbmc, regular windows desktop, etc.)
Going to the control panel in catalyst ATI, there is a reset button. Hitting it returns the screen to normal brightness without the need to reboot.
Perhaps NVIDIA has a similar button.
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NVIDIA has reset buttons but only when they actually reset something and that's not the case because in the NVIDIA control panel, the brightness is at 100% as always.
When the screen dims, this is not reported to the driver, so it seems...
I see the brightness slider at 100% and I move it to any value, as long as I change it, and the brightness is restored this way (to the value I changed it to, of course). I can't try to reproduce it and post the steps it took (and the log) because I only have access to my HTPC at weekends only, I'm at my university home at the moment...
I'm sure someone else can do it or I'll see what I can do next weekend.
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strange stuff...even a shutdown wouldn't correct it...but then i opened my ATI catalyst center, and it fixed itself before i even did anything.
thanks for the tips, guys.
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anyone looked into this? Shall we post a bug report?
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No need to trac it anymore. jmarshall just changed the behavior of XBMC from using a gamma ramp which stays unchanged until XBMC would change it back to a normal OpenGL quad which looks like dimming.
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It just darkens the screen by applying a black transparent quad on the screen. No power saving method is involved but a plasma might save some watts a LCD most probably not.
