You have been subscribed to a public bug: by adding the brightness control to the top panel, when trying to adjust the brightness the sliding bar doesn't move, and then the whole machine hangs. hard reset has been necessary. normal keyboard controlled brightness works fine (function +home or function+end) using gnome 2.24.1 and ubuntu 8.10
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- panel brightness control on ibm x40 causes hang https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310297 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-panel in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs