Comment 15 for bug 116107

Hi, Marco.

This launchpad site is for bugs related to System 76 computers.
While we do try to share knowledge with the Ubuntu community at large,
we do not have an Asus G1S laptop to test with.

Best,
Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marco Fonseca" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Friday, November 9, 2007 9:00:54 AM (GMT-0700) America/Denver
Subject: [Bug 116107] Re: monitor output hotkey Fn-F8 does not work on Darter

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

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monitor output hotkey Fn-F8 does not work on Darter
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