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  1. Intrepid (8.10)
  2. Bug #285323
  3. Comment #145

Comment 145 for bug 285323

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Onno Zweers (onnozweers) wrote : Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

I agree totally with Wirawan. This bug, though small, is very serious. I found the workaround Ctrl+Alt+Fx by myself because I wanted to check the problem from the command line, but there are more and more users out there who have no idea that their Linux has six text terminals. The only thing they know is: if I use completely normal keys on my keyboard, Linux crashes. Their conclusion will be that Ubuntu, or Linux in general, sucks.

My setup, in case anybody is interested: Inspiron 1150, Linux inspiron1150 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux.

onno@inspiron1150:~$ sudo dmidecode | grep -i -a1 -b1 "Vendor"; sudo dmidecode | grep -i -a1 -b1 "Product Name"
372-BIOS Information
389: Vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
424- Version: A05
1278- Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
1319: Product Name: Inspiron 1150
1367- Version: Not Specified
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1546- Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
1587: Product Name: 0F3553
1609- Version:

I am very grateful for all the people here who have spent time debugging this! Thank you all. I hope the patch is incorporated in the kernel soon.