[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 446717] Re: [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models

2010-09-23 Thread Martin Vielsmaier
The bug is fixed for me by the following commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4e5359cd053bfb7d8dabe4a63624a5726848ffbc It is part of kernels = 2.6.36-rc4. Setting the brightness for me still is somehow weird (after pressing Fn+left_arrow more than

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 446717] Re: [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models

2010-07-14 Thread Martin Vielsmaier
When the system is frozen it is enough to kill compiz to break the freeze. I attached gdb to compiz while frozen, here is the stack: (gdb) info stack #0 0x7fc45b2d2187 in ioctl () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x7fc45891e84d in drm_intel_gem_bo_start_gtt_access () from /lib/libdrm_intel.so.1

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 446717] Re: [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models

2010-07-12 Thread Martin Vielsmaier
Well +1 :-( I'm running Lucid on a 4810TG (with ATI, but not using the ATI card, because it drains my battery, see http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7933876postcount=11 for a module that powers off the ATI card.) My tries to fix include the following: - Tried kernel 2.6.34 (package from

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 446717] Re: [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models

2010-07-12 Thread Martin Vielsmaier
oh: 4) should be 2) + ... -- [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446717 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-intel in

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 446717] Re: [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models

2010-07-12 Thread Martin Vielsmaier
I found a way to prevent the kernel from setting the brightness: acpi=off boot option, but that is not what you want to do an a laptop :-) -- [gm45] Adjusting Brightness in Acer Aspire Timelines causes system freeze in 4810T and 5810T models https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446717 You received