I can't write anything on any application in my ubuntu gnome 8.10

[navandres]

I recently uploaded from 8.04 to 8.10.

This problem appears after I increase the bright of the screen in my notebook(Dell Studio 1735). After that I can't write a letter, no matter where. If I close the session, and log in again, everything works again. Another clue is that when the notebook is with the power connected, everything work just fine. Unless that I reduce the brightness of the lcd. So the issue is directly related with the brightness control.

Really weird, but this are the typical kind of things when I upgrade.

I'm here to provide any information you want.

Regards,
Andres

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

Thanks a lot for helping to improve Ubuntu by reporting the problem! It would be great if you could tell us which architecture you're working on. Please describe the behaviour of 'not beeing able to write anything on any application' in more details, since it's not easy to get a understanding of what this could mean. Do the applications freeze and you've to restart X or something like that? Thanks in advance!

[navandres (navandres)]

Thanks for your interesting. What I mean with that is that I cant write a
key on any application on gnome. I mean eclipse, gedit, firefox, openoffice,
no one at all. I mean that the keyword doesnt write a key.

Weird! Isn't it?

Who knows

Thanks again

2009/2/12 jbrinkmann <email address hidden>

> Thanks a lot for helping to improve Ubuntu by reporting the problem! It
> would be great if you could tell us which architecture you're working
> on. Please describe the behaviour of 'not beeing able to write anything
> on any application' in more details, since it's not easy to get a
> understanding of what this could mean. Do the applications freeze and
> you've to restart X or something like that? Thanks in advance!
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Sourcepackagename: None => xorg
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> I can't write anything on any application in my ubuntu gnome 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319873
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

Yes, sounds really strange. Can you please tell us on which platform you're working (amd64, x86, something else?) .

[navandres (navandres)]

I install 8.10 x86 on a Dell studio 1735 laptop.

2009/2/13 jbrinkmann <email address hidden>

> Yes, sounds really strange. Can you please tell us on which platform
> you're working (amd64, x86, something else?) .
>
> --
> I can't write anything on any application in my ubuntu gnome 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319873
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

Ok, thank you very much. Don't have the hardware to verify this behaviour. I don't really know which logfile would be needed, so marking this as confirmed. There is a complete description of the problem. Thanks for your help.

[navandres (navandres)]

thank you for your time

2009/2/13 jbrinkmann <email address hidden>

> Ok, thank you very much. Don't have the hardware to verify this
> behaviour. I don't really know which logfile would be needed, so marking
> this as confirmed. There is a complete description of the problem.
> Thanks for your help.
>
> ** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
> Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
>
> --
> I can't write anything on any application in my ubuntu gnome 8.10
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/319873
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Not enough information to troubleshoot. See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Reporting for instructions on reporting X issues. You're missing some required files.

Also, see this troubleshooting guide for issues where keyboard and/or mouse quit working, in case it describes your problem. If it does, provide further details according to that guide:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/HalBreaksKeyboardAndMouse

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Anyway, sort of sounds ACPI/HAL-ish. Unfortunately the bug report is incomplete so hard to say for sure. Refiling to hal for now.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

This sounds similar to the issues we had on the Samsung NC10/NC20 with Fn key presses never being followed by a key release event.

[JanBrinkmann (jbrinkmann)]

 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!