On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 04:09:46PM -0000, Aditya wrote:
> Hi,
> by different I mean that the system freezes in both the situations, with 
> nmi_watchdog enabled and disabled, and this happens as soon as I soon as I 
> change the brightness levels, and this is the reason I actually reached this 
> bug report.

Then, let's do some testing.

Could you please do the following:

        - Boot the system with acpi_backlight=vendor

        - sudo echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog

        - cat /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog (make sure the output is 0)

        - Try changing the brightness using the keyboard keys, and see whether 
          a freeze would happens or not.

Note that if you just put echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog in 
/etc/rc.local, then you are going to need to reboot the system in order for the 
script to be executed.

If a freeze still happens, then my guess is that there is another source of 
NMIs on your system other than nmi_watchdog that still conflicts with the 
vendor firmware backlight driver.

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  brightness adjusting crashes system

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