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  1. Bug #872652
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Comment 55 for bug 872652

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Kamal Mostafa (kamalmostafa) wrote :

The two patches by Takashi Iwai to fix this bug ("screensaver backlight stuck off, system looks hung") have now been applied to the standard Ubuntu 11.10 kernel. One of the patches appears in the recently released 3.0.0-14 series kernel and resolves the problem for many systems. The other patch will appear in the forthcoming 3.0.0-15 series kernel and should resolve the problem for all the rest of the affected systems. I will continue to maintain my 'stuck-backlight' kernel PPA (which includes the patches) until the 3.0.0-15 kernel gets released:

    https://launchpad.net/~kamalmostafa/+archive/stuck-backlight

My thanks to Takashi Iwai and Alex Davis for the fixes, and everyone here for the testing and feedback.

@Ekimia- The old gnome-settings-daemon fix for this issue is now obsolete -- that patch will not be applied. Use the kernel PPA instead.