Gateway laptop - function keys force me to hard reboot
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meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
I've installed 7.10 on a Gateway 200 ARC laptop. The following function key combinations cause my display to wig out completely. The entire screen becomes very "snowy" and not readable. Ctrl-alt-backspace won't restart X. The only thing I know to do to fix it is a hard reboot by holding how the power button.
fn+up/down arrow : brightness
fn+right/left arrow : volume
During boot however the function keys work fine. I can change brightness and volume no problem. Once I get to the logon screen those function keys hose the display.
If I do nothing during boot, then the screen defaults to what appears to be the lowest brightness level.
Also, Power Manager Brightness Applet 2.20.0, says "cannot get laptop panel brightness." This feels like a separate issue since the wigged out screen happens using the volume keys as well.
The occurs every time.
The workaround is to set screen brightness and volume during boot time ONLY.
The recovery is a hard reboot.
Attached are all the files from /var/log/ that updated when I recreated this problem. I recreated the problem at about 22:09 in logfile time.