Display changed: LCD on/off

[Athanasios Arkoudopoulos]

When working on Kubuntu I keep getting popup windows with the message:
'Display changed: lcd off'?

The problem seems to be in an not updated kmilo package for asus laptops.

Can you help me out with this one?

--Saki

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374

[Rob Stockley (ubuntuforum)]

You can make the messages go away temporarily by editing
/usr/share/services/kded/kmilod.desktop and setting the following lines to false;

X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false
X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false

Log out and back in or restart X to make the change stick.

Rob

[Pavel Novak (pavel-innuendo)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can make the messages go away temporarily by editing
> /usr/share/services/kded/kmilod.desktop and setting the following lines to false;
>
> X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false
> X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false
>
> Log out and back in or restart X to make the change stick.

After this change KDE doesn't remember session (last opened windows and
programs). it's not good usable trick. :(

[Athanasios Arkoudopoulos (saki82-deactivatedaccount)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > You can make the messages go away temporarily by editing
> > /usr/share/services/kded/kmilod.desktop and setting the following lines to
false;
> >
> > X-KDE-Kded-autoload=false
> > X-KDE-Kded-load-on-demand=false
> >
> > Log out and back in or restart X to make the change stick.
>
> After this change KDE doesn't remember session (last opened windows and
> programs). it's not good usable trick. :(

Kmilo isn't included (standard) in Breezy Badger anymore. So normally the
problem of KDE don't rembering the last session, shouldn't exist.

[tuxo (beat-fasel)]

I can confirm this bug!

Random messages pop up saying "Display changed: LCD off" or "Display changed: LCD on ".

Furthermore, /var/log/syslog is full of following messages:

Asus ACPI: Error reading brightness
Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status

The messages popup so frequently that the laptop is not usable at all. This is a showstopper as a common user would not be able to turn the culprit off and would give up soon on Kubuntu.

Kmilo seems to be the causing factor and can be turned off as described here:
http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Asus_W3N-Kompendium:_Kubuntu

This bug is also know in the KDE bug repository (no 102374):
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102374

Also the ubuntuforum knows about it:
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-21808.html

My Hardware:
Laptop ASUS T9400

My Software:
Stock Kubuntu Breezy (KDE 3.4.3). Ugraded from Kubuntu hoary.

[Athanasios Arkoudopoulos (saki82-deactivatedaccount)]

The only solution that worked for me is: apt-get remove kmilo.
It think the advantage of a useable notebook not remebering the last session over an unuseable notebook that does remember the last session is quite clear :)

[Jonathan Anderson (jonathan-anderson)]

tuxo said: "I can confirm this bug!"

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Is this still an issue in Intrepid?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!