Comment 14 for bug 116107

Hi all,

First of all, thanks a lot for all your work. It means a lot particularly to all of us newbies.

I have an Asus G1S laptop, running Gutsy Gibbon (final + updates) with kernel 2.6.22 and desktop effects enabled. I've also tried to update the acpi driver using the latest version of acpi4asus from cvs, but I haven't been able to compile the driver at all. So, the machine is running with version 0.30 of this driver and not with version 0.41. Running dmesg outputs a line saying "Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.30, unsupported model G1S, trying default values", etc.

After doing tons of googling around and trying a large number of possible solutions for why the fn + f8 button combination doesn't work on my machine, I found the solutions suggested above and decided to try them. These solutions brought me closer to getting something happening when I pressed the fn + f8 than anything else. Trouble is double though.

First, using the two files solution and after pressing fn + f8 key, the screen goes black (which, compared to not doing anything before, it's progress!), but after pressing the fn + f8 to return to the LCD, the screen stays black and there is no way out except by doing a hard reboot.

Second, if I don't use the files above and only change the modules line on the acpid file to read "vga all", in addition to getting the same problem of not being able to get out of a black screen, I also seem to lose some acpi functionality, particularly the battery icon and the automatic brightness adjustment of the screen when switching from ac to battery power.

At this point, then, I'm nowhere closer to actually solving this problem than I was before and so any extra bit of help would be appreciated.

Tx,

Marco