Well it's not me that matters; it's all the other people with weird screens like mine, as well as the prople whose screens don't do this. We need to wither come up with a solution that works for everyone, or else mark some class of screen as misconfigured so we can tell those people to file kernel bugs.

In D13095#467997, @ngraham wrote:

Moving the brightness to zero is supposed to turn the backlight off, not the screen right?

@romangg The current code selects from a discrete set of brightness levels which starts at zero. I was suggesting just removing the zero brightness level and using the next level as the minimum brightness level.

I like the idea of this patch. I just reassigned my brightness hotkeys to a small script that does almost exactly what this patch does before I discovered this patch.