Leann Ogasawara : For now I'm closing the gnome-power-manager task as this has been confirmed to be a kernel bug.
It isn't, and hasn't been. This is a bug with Dell portables. The kernel patch is a hack to fix up the buggy crap. Nick -- Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-power-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs