This is seemingly a problem with gnome-power-manager, acpi_listen displays keypresses immediately. Also, if you change power manager settings like "dim while idle", the brightness OSD stops responding for a period of time and the selectable brightness levels become severely reduced.
The output from `gnome-power-bugreport.sh`: Distro version: DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10 DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10" Kernel version: 2.6.27-9-generic g-p-m version: 2.24.0 HAL version: 0.5.11 System manufacturer: missing System version: missing System product: missing AC adapter present: yes Battery present: yes Laptop panel present: no CPU scaling present: yes Battery Information: battery.charge_level.current = 31710 (0x7bde) (int) battery.charge_level.design = 57650 (0xe132) (int) battery.charge_level.last_full = 42180 (0xa4c4) (int) battery.charge_level.percentage = 75 (0x4b) (int) battery.charge_level.rate = 15961 (0x3e59) (int) battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool) battery.model = 'IBM-COMPATIBLE' (string) battery.present = true (bool) battery.rechargeable.is_charging = false (bool) battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = true (bool) battery.remaining_time = 7152 (0x1bf0) (int) battery.reporting.current = 31710 (0x7bde) (int) battery.reporting.design = 57650 (0xe132) (int) battery.reporting.last_full = 42180 (0xa4c4) (int) battery.reporting.rate = 15961 (0x3e59) (int) battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string) battery.reporting.unit = 'mWh' (string) battery.serial = '11873' (string) battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string) battery.type = 'primary' (string) battery.vendor = 'PSPSP 04' (string) battery.voltage.current = 15044 (0x3ac4) (int) battery.voltage.design = 14400 (0x3840) (int) battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string) GNOME Power Manager Process Information: <username> 5556 0.5 0.9 28660 14748 ? Ss 08:21 0:10 gnome-power-manager HAL Process Information: 111 4709 0.1 0.2 6328 4284 ? Ss 08:20 0:02 /usr/sbin/hald root 4775 0.0 0.0 3364 1116 ? S 08:20 0:00 \_ hald-runner root 4795 0.0 0.0 3436 1080 ? S 08:20 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event6 root 4802 0.0 0.0 3448 1040 ? S 08:20 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq 111 4803 0.0 0.0 2296 944 ? S 08:20 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket In the attached log, captured from running `gnome-power-manager --verbose --no-daemon`, I changed the dim when idle preference at exactly 9:14:00 local time. Then I reduced brightness three times and increased it three times. The brightness changed, but the OSD did not. gnome-power manager seemed to be hung. Then, the OSD appeared, but immediately stopped responding as power-manager hung again, I issued brightness up a bunch of times, and it eventually came around and I was able to increase my brightness to maximum. I then truncated the log. ** Attachment added: "output from gnome-power-manager with --verbose" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20547748/gpm.log -- Dimming on X41 Thinkpad Broken under 8.10 Intrepid https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/301097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
