I forgot to add that it is also nothing of the backlight setting itself,
because calling
xbacklight -set NN
does not make AltGr unusable.
On Do, 16 Apr 2009, Norbert Preining wrote:
> I am having the following strange phenomenon:
>
> When I log into the gnome session the AltGr key is working, thus on my
> German kbd I get
> AltGr-q -> AT sign
> AltGr-8 -> open square bracket
> ...
> As soon as I adjust the brightness with Fn-F5 or Fn-F6 the OSD with the
> brightness level appears, the brightness is adjusted, but at the same
> time the functionality of the AltGr key is lost. Pressing AltGr-q I get
> a q instead of the AT sign.
>
> This is 100% repeatable, and happens only in Gnome. I tried the failsafe
> terminal session and pressing the keys did not change anything, nor the
> brightness, nor the AltGr behaviour.
>
> So I guess that the culprit is one of those adjusting the brightness, and
> not the hardware support for sending the kbd events.
>
> Since a missing AltGr on a German kbd means there is no AT, no curly nor
> square brackets, etc, that is very disturbing, and I need to restart X
> to get normal behaviour back.
>
> Hard/Software:
> - Sony Vaio VGN-Z11
> - kernel 2.6.29 plus latest sony-acpi patches from Mattia/ACPI ML
> - Debian/sid up2date
>
> Hope that someone can help me there
Best wishes
Norbert
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