Re: [Bug 285323] Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

2009-01-11 Thread Andrew Paprocki
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Chris Hillery wrote: > Also happening here on a Dell Latitude D800. Confirmed that my Vendor is > "Dell Computer Corporation" also. Chris, can you post the output from these commands? dmidecode -t bios | head -8 dmidecode -t system | head -8 -- Losing keyboard a

[Bug 285323] Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

2009-01-05 Thread Andrew Paprocki
Lethe, I spoke to the user who reported the Phoenix BIOS and it looks like there is no problem with that version. The current kernel patches should fix the problem for all the known cases. This is what the user said: "As of this date, and with the latest updates (as of yesterday)... Brightness and

[Bug 289444] Re: Brightness Control on-screen display won't disappear

2009-01-04 Thread Andrew Paprocki
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 285323 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 285323 Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid -- Brightness Control on-screen display won't disapp

[Bug 308517] Re: battery key tooltip won't close, cpu at 100% (gnome power manager) intrepid

2009-01-04 Thread Andrew Paprocki
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 285323 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 285323 Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid -- battery key tooltip won't close, cpu at 100% (gno

[Bug 285323] Re: Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid

2009-01-04 Thread Andrew Paprocki
I see this is targeting intrepid-updates, but that is not slated until 2010-04-30. Is there any other way to push this to Intrepid users faster? -- Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 You received

[Bug 308594] Re: Infinite loop of Xf86battery key presses

2009-01-04 Thread Andrew Paprocki
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 285323 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/285323 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 285323 Losing keyboard and mouse control when changing screen brightness with fn + arrow under intrepid -- Infinite loop of Xf86battery key presses https://

[Bug 289444] Re: Brightness Control on-screen display won't disappear

2009-01-04 Thread Andrew Paprocki
There is a kernel bug. The drivers/input/atkbd.c file has a quirk in it for Dell laptops which needed to be expanded to cover more models. It was changed initially to match any laptop manufactured by "Dell Inc.", but this then broke ones manufactured by "Dell Computer Corporation". So you either do