On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 00:35:39 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > reassign 754659 xserver-xorg > severity 754659 normal > thanks > > On Sun, 13 Jul 2014, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > Package: luakit > > Version: 2012.09.13-r1-3 > > Severity: critical > > > > I tagged that bug critical as it has some bad effect to the hardware. I > > am not fully sure where the problem lives in. The only informations that > > I have I will put into this report. > > > > I use luakit on my laptop, a Lenovo X61s with a intel GM965/GL960 > > graphic controller. I am not able to reproduce that bug with any other > > browser or software or any other hardware. As X is involved, I will also > > attach the full Xorg log of a broken session. > > > > When I use luakit and _load new pages_ it often blanks the screen by > > switching the backlight of. There is no way to switch it back on again > > but with a trick, putting the laptop to sleep and waking it up again, I > > get some backlight back. Some means in this case that only the right > > side is lighted. I have to do a full system restart to get the proper > > backlight back. I do not know if that is good for the hardware or not > > but I do not think that it should be the case that a browser is able to > > destroy hardware. > > > > I have no idea what does trigger the bug but I fear about using luakit > > on that laptop anymore. > > > > [...] > > luakit is just a web browser and has no direct access to hardware by itself. > I'm reassigning this report to xserver-xorg as the most probably package > to blame, but even in such case, be ready to provide the X maintainers > whatever additional information they might ask you. > X doesn't touch the hardware nowadays, that all lives in the kernel.
Cheers, Julien
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