Ubuntu
acpid package

  1. Bug #285323
  2. Comment #109

Comment 109 for bug 285323

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marco.proserpio (marco-proserpio) wrote : Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

I have inspiron 9200, with ATI video card. The OS is Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10
Other information obtained using lshw coomand:
description: Portable Computer
    product: Inspiron 9200
    vendor: Dell Inc.
    serial: B6KRH1J
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.3 dmi-2.3
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: 0G7183
       vendor: Dell Inc.
       physical id: 0
       slot: en|US|iso8859-1
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Dell Inc.
          physical id: 0
          version: A01 (02/01/2005)
          size: 64KiB
          capacity: 448KiB

When adjust the backlight with FN + ARROW the CPU increases up to 100%.
The solution to restore the CPU to normal use is by pressing the key combination CTRL + ALT + F1.