There are several other bug reprots with similar symptoms that are now trying this patch.
Dmitriy Geels just added two dupes to this report. He has down some debugging at Bug #350912, I just wanted to make sure his info is carried over (there are more logs and files there, but the following info confirms the behavior the patch in this report fixes): This laptop has 3 backlight control buttons: dim/bright and 'eco' (which should put laptop into economy mode). Now, how buttons work (I press buttons not 1 time per second or less): d...@dmig-laptop:~$ watch -n 1 cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA1/LCDD/brightness Every 1,0s: cat /proc/acpi/video/VGA1/LCDD/brightness Sun Mar 29 16:08:54 2009 levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 5 dim button: no changes, gnome brightness popup shows zero level brightness bright button: 1st press levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 1 2nd press levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 4 3rd presslevels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 1 4th press levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 4 eco button: eco off: levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 4 eco on: no change eco off: backlight blinks twice, then: levels: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 current: 2 eco on: no change eco off: screen blinks 3 times, then level rests on 2 -- Random reaction to brightness hotkeys https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376924 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
