From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: carbonated beverage <ramune@net-ronin.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080930231952.GB15903@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080925060244.GA18945@net-ronin.org>
Hi!
> I just upgraded from 2.6.25.17 to 2.6.26.5 on my Thinkpad Z61t, and found
> the brightness keys will cause the X server to die. When using the
> brightness up/down keys, the screen will go blank -- Control+Alt+F# will
> still switch to a different virtual console, but switching back will not
> restore the video state.
>
> After killing the window manager, I was able to bring up X again without
> a problem -- but using the brightness keys still causes it to go blank
> again within X, while the brightness does get changed correctly on the
> console.
>
> There were no kernel messages, but this appeared in the Xorg log:
Yes, I had similar problems... for me it blanked screen on closing
lid. Problem disappeared after upgrading X...
> .config attached -- is this a known issue? In the meantime, I'm starting
> a bisection to figure out where the problem crops up.
For me CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO never really worked...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-30 23:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 6:02 carbonated beverage
2008-09-25 7:07 ` CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO on Thinkpad blanks display carbonated beverage
2008-09-25 10:07 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-09-25 19:09 ` carbonated beverage
2008-09-25 19:58 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2008-09-25 20:16 ` carbonated beverage
2008-09-30 23:19 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-10-01 0:59 ` Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5 Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 9:40 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-01 9:54 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-01 9:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-01 18:28 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 18:33 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-10-01 18:55 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-10-01 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
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