[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#593246: Increasing/decreasing brightness hangs the system

[Vikram Vincent]

Package: acpi
Version: 1.5-2
Severity: important
Tags: squeeze sid

Symptoms: Using the keyboard function keys to increase or decrease
brightness causes the entire system to hang   Need to do a hard
restart  Restarting the system causes the laptop monitor brightness
to increase to maximum  Gnome-power-manager not effective in this
case.  Thought that this was a conflict between different power
management packages but not sure about how to verify

Workaround: Before logging in, switch to ctrl-alt-F1
Reduce brightness. Switch back to ctrl-alt-F7


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-2   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

acpi recommends no packages.

acpi suggests no packages.

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