Hi! I just made a clean install of Lucid and the problem remains. It is really annoying... :s I also noticed the following warning messages which I don't know if they're important: TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_xevent_key,203 - could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode (gnome-power-manager:18687): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x94d9270' TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-brightness-hal.c FN:gpm_brightness_hal_init,455 - No devices of capability laptop_panel TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_dbus_connect,261 - Cannot connect, maybe the daemon is not running: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.phone': no such name TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_coldplug,76 - not connected Appeared here: - Verbose debugging 1 (on console 1)GPM_VERBOSE TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-main.c FN:main,210 - GNOME Power Manager 2.30.0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-session.c FN:gpm_session_init,511 - idle: 1, idle_inhibited: 0, suspend_inhibited: 0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-session.c FN:gpm_session_register_client,367 - registered startup '(null)' to client id '/org/gnome/SessionManager/Client33' TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:egg-console-kit.c FN:egg_console_kit_init,304 - ConsoleKit session ID: /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=124 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=213 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=150 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_xevent_key,203 - could not map keysym 1008ffa8 to keycode TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=233 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=232 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=160 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=244 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=238 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=237 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-button.c FN:gpm_button_grab_keystring,176 - Grabbed modmask=8000, keycode=236 (gnome-power-manager:18687): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.0/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x94d9270' TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-brightness-xrandr.c FN:gpm_brightness_xrandr_setup_display,170 - No outputs have backlight property TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-brightness-xrandr.c FN:gpm_brightness_xrandr_init,717 - no XRANDR extension, so aborting init TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:egg-dbus-proxy.c FN:egg_dbus_proxy_connect,73 - already connected to org.freedesktop.Hal TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:egg-dbus-proxy.c FN:egg_dbus_proxy_connect,73 - already connected to org.freedesktop.Hal TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-brightness-hal.c FN:gpm_brightness_hal_init,455 - No devices of capability laptop_panel TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-prefs-server.c FN:gpm_prefs_server_set_capability,84 - capability now 4 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,187 - session_idle=1, idle_inhibited=0, suspend_inhibited=0, x_idle=0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,192 - X not idle TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_set_timeout_dim,261 - Setting dim idle timeout: 10s TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-dpms.c FN:gpm_dpms_clear_timeouts,311 - set timeouts to zero TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:egg-console-kit.c FN:egg_console_kit_init,304 - ConsoleKit session ID: /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Session2 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-backlight.c FN:gpm_backlight_brightness_evaluate_and_set,299 - no dimming hardware TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_set_check_cpu,122 - Setting the CPU load check to 0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-manager.c FN:gpm_manager_init,1950 - creating new control instance TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-manager.c FN:gpm_manager_init,1955 - creating new tray icon TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_dbus_connect,242 - get connection TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_dbus_connect,253 - get proxy TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_dbus_connect,261 - Cannot connect, maybe the daemon is not running: Could not get owner of name 'org.gnome.phone': no such name TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-engine.c FN:gpm_engine_init,1123 - Using per-time notification policy TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_set_timeout_blank,282 - Setting blank idle timeout: 60s TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,187 - session_idle=1, idle_inhibited=0, suspend_inhibited=0, x_idle=0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,192 - X not idle TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_set_timeout_sleep,299 - Setting sleep idle timeout: 0s TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,187 - session_idle=1, idle_inhibited=0, suspend_inhibited=0, x_idle=0 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-idle.c FN:gpm_idle_evaluate,192 - X not idle TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-disks.c FN:gpm_disks_set_spindown_timeout,125 - disk spindown disabled TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-prefs-server.c FN:gpm_prefs_server_set_capability,84 - capability now 12 TI:01:24:09 TH:0x94746d8 FI:gpm-phone.c FN:gpm_phone_coldplug,76 - not connected Thank you!