As a suggestion from a post on ubuntuforums.org, I decided to boot into some older kernels i had. Tested on 2.6.27-7 and 2.6.27-10, and in both, the brightness worked. This rules out the ACPI, unless it loaded a different module for those kernels. Kernel 2.6.27-11.23 is in fact the faulty element in the problem. Now, how does one go about to fix this? said the n00b :D
** Description changed: Recent updates rendered my brightness control via gnome-power-manager unusable. I have no way to controlling the brightness of my screen. whether be it by soft-keys (fn+f7 or fn+f8) or by the Power Manager Brightness Applet in gnome. attached you'll find my hal_output.txt from issuing the "lshal" command in gnome-temrinal Unfortunately, i dont remember exactly what packages updated when the bug appeared. If anyone can explain how i might be able to find out, id appreciate it. Im running Ubuntu 8.10 x86_64 with kernel 2.6.27-11-generic I expected to have brightness control But i have no brightness control. EDIT: This is noted on a ubuntuforums.org thread. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1036390. Just wanted to tlink the two. + + EDIT: Confirmed that the problem lies with the kernel 2.6.27-11.23 ** Tags added: kernel update ** Tags removed: hal -- laptop panel brightness broke after recent update https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316145 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
