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and subject line Re: [Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#558656: Bug#558656: acpid: Setting
brightness renders system unusable
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regarding acpi: screen brightness keyboard glitch on a Dell laptop
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Package: acpi
Version: 1.4-2
Severity: important
I have a Dell Inspiron laptop. The backlight brightness keyboard
command, Fn-Up/Down, makes the screen to flicker either in X or in the
text mode. This glitch has appeared recently after an update.
If the keys are pressed in Gnome, the screen brightness popup window
stays on for a long time showing the brightness value to change a few
times in a second, and eventually ends up reaching the value 0.
The Gnome LCD brightness applet is unaffected as well as the direct
parameter setting, e.g.,
"echo 1 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness"
Only the keyboard commands are affected by the glitch.
Regards,
Vladimir
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.lowlatency.3 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages acpi depends on:
ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
acpi recommends no packages.
acpi suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 12:50:21PM -0800, Michele Lucca wrote:
> "Unfortunately", I cannot reproduce the bug anymore. I tried to delete
> video_brightnessdown and video_brightnessup (I have a dell laptop, so I don't
> know if asus-* file have effects here), and this
> seemed to remove the bug with no other undesired effects. Now, after
> restoring these files, the bug didn't come back.
So this probably was that old acpi-support bug too that has been fixed by
migrating acpi 0.130-1 to squeeze.
Michael
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