[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#586853: acpi: Cannot change display brightness

[Martin Martinez Rivera]

Package: acpi
Version: 1.5-2
Severity: important

After an upgrade, I cannot longer change my display brightness (either using backlight, function keys, etc.)
I get the following error message: ACPI: failed to switch the brightness. Dmesg reports: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: ACPI brightness control misses _BQC function


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (800, 'testing'), (750, 'experimental'), (700, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.34-0.dmz.12-liquorix-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages acpi depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-1   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

acpi recommends no packages.

acpi suggests no packages.

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