You have been subscribed to a public bug: Hello, I found a problem trying to change the brightness of my laptop Dell Inspiron 2200 on Intrepid Ibex using brightness hotkeys (all hotkeys seem to work properly except the brightness hotkeys).
When I press these hotkeys, the screen brightness changes correctly, but the brightness dialog appears with a "progress bar" that goes to the maximum or minimum value, no matter how many times I press the corresponding hotkey. After that, the dialog stays visible for a long time (or it simply stays "forever") and locks the keyboard until I change current terminal with ctrl-alt-FX and return to graphical terminal. These hotkeys were working properly on 8.04, and I upgraded to 8.10 from the Internet (not a fresh install, only upgraded). I have the latest BIOS for Inspiron 2200. I have read about related bugs in other models. In power manager options, I have unchecked the option "dim screen when idle" in ac configuration (this was a possible reason in other models having the same or a smilar problem). I tried also removing xorg.conf configuration file, the problem persists. Brightness hotkeys in Inspiron are Fn+UpArrow or Fn+DownArrow. Thank you for your help! ** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed -- Brightness hotkeys problem on Dell Inspiron 2200 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/306363 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