Public bug reported: Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
Randomly g-p-m will start emiting brightness-up and brightness-down keypress events multiple times per second, making the screen rapidly flicker. The computer starts responding slowly, although this could just be because of the large number of events being generated by g-p-m. While this is happening, changing the brightness manually using shortcut keys works, but g-p-m continues to change the brightness. The only way to stop this is to manually killall gnome-power-manager Also, I'm unable to login to a virtual terminal during this time as the password prompt fills up with @ symbols, which is the symbol that is output when my brightness -up and -down shortcuts are activated. It's as though the key is stuck down (dw, I checked and its not). Attached is the output from g-p-m --verbose. I did not change the brightness while it was logging. This is on an MSI Wind U100 netbook. This did not happen using any previous versions of Ubuntu ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Tue May 26 17:37:41 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 Package: gnome-power-manager 2.26.1-0ubuntu3 ProcEnviron: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.30-5.6-generic SourcePackage: gnome-power-manager Uname: Linux 2.6.30-5-generic i686 ** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-bug gpm i386 -- gnome-power-manager emits brightness-up and -down keypresses https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/380510 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs