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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:19:52 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz> To: carbonated beverage <ramune@...-ronin.org> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5 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... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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