I have a thinkpad x40 and i have not found a solution. just been living with it :/
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Frans <frans0...@free.fr> wrote: > I have the same issue on an IBM thinkpad X40 with Ubuntu 8.10 and the last > Ubuntu 9.04. > Is there a solution ? > > -- > Brightness issue with Ibex 8.10 on IBM X40 Laptop > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290545 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "gnome-power-manager" source package in Ubuntu: New > > Bug description: > A very annoying brightness bug in 8.10 beta release. The following are the > symptoms: > > 1. When I press Fn+Home/End to increase/decrease brightness, the brightness > applet does not appear for atlease 15-20 secs > 2. After changing the brightness, the screen progressively goes darker > 3. Pressing the Fn+Home key to adjust brightness is very intermittent, > sometime it works, sometime it does not work > > What I expect to happen: > a) Brightness to be adjusted automatically to preset brightness when laptop > does not have AC power > b) Fn+Home/End to adjust brightness to function in a stable fashion. It > worked well in 8.04 > c) brightness chaging applet to be responsive > d) in 8.04, i hardly used these function keys. With 8.10 this is so > annoying that I am unable to work with no power cord > > uname -a > Linux sun-laptop 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 24 06:42:44 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > s...@sun-laptop:~$ cat /etc/issue > Ubuntu 8.10 \n \l > > I am using IBM X40 > > lsb_release -rd > Description: 8.10 > Release: 8.10 > -- Brightness issue with Ibex 8.10 on IBM X40 Laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/290545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
