On Sat, Jul 21, 2007 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: > John Wright wrote: > > Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati > > Version: 1:6.6.3-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > I have a compaq nc6000 laptop, and the brightness buttons don't work if > > I use x.org's ati driver. They do work with fglrx, and they used to > > work with the free ati driver in sarge. > > Assuming you upgraded from sarge to etch, it's actually hard to be sure > what is causing this problem. There are lots of components involved when > pressing such a special button, at least the kernel, X server are > involved too, all of them got a major upgrade between sarge and etch. > Upstream has some bugs like yours, for instance > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8362, without any reply > unfortunately.
Yes, that looks suspiciously like my problem, except I didn't have the switch issue. > Since it works with fglrx, I am going to keep the bug assigned to the > ati driver for now. Does it help if you upgrade to > xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.6.192 currently in experimental? Yes! That did the trick. Thanks! Should I mark this bug as fixed in version 6.6.192-1? -- John Wright -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
