fn keys for backlight (brighness) not working : geforce 8 card on sony vaio, no laptop_panel in lshal
Bug #345531 reported by
Schmirrwurst
This bug affects 4 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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HAL |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
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acpi-support (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Steve Langasek | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Medium
|
Steve Langasek | ||
hal (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Jaunty |
Won't Fix
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
powerdevil (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Jaunty |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
fn keys for backlight are not working on sony vaio with geforce nvidia card (8 and 9 ?) , and
hal-find-
If you are experiencing those problem, please provide information as described here :
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Changed in acpi-support: | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in powerdevil (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Changed in acpi-support (Ubuntu Jaunty): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-9.04 → none |
Changed in hal: | |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in hal: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
Changed in hal: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in hal: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
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The showkeys output shows that the kernel driver is synthesizing the correct keypress events for these hotkeys, but that the desktop stack is not subsequently able to handle them.
We can easily restore the sony scripts to the acpi-support package, but the right way to fix this is if gnome-power-manager (or other desktop package as appropriate) will know what to do with these events on your hardware. So I'm opening a task on gnome-power-manager for this. If that doesn't manage to work itself out in time for release, I'll restore the acpi-support script.