On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:00:21AM -0000, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > Disabling KMS just makes the problem appear less often. This is > ultimately a bug in the MSI BIOS, if it chooses to handle the brightness > keys in hardware it shouldn't emit keypress events. The power managers > such as g-p-m, powerdevel, and xfce4-power-manager need to be told to > work around this. For powerdevil patching hal-info would be sufficient > as Felix Geyer has suggested, gnome-power-manager doesn't read this > because it uses xrandr instead of HAL so I don't know how to fix it.
I agree that the BIOS shouldn't both handle the brightness keys in hardware and emit a keypress event. However, the kernel mediates these keypress events - doesn't it make more sense to fix up the kernel to suppress known-bogus keypress events, once for all, instead of requiring each userspace power manager to quirk this separately? Also, could anyone try the change suggested in #76 and let me know if it makes a difference? It's a longshot that probably won't change anything at all (that setting is only supposed to control brightness handling on *power* state changes), but we might as well rule that out. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- brightness is broken on MSI WIND U100 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/415023 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to kdebase-workspace in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list kubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
