Bug#524344: gnome-power-manager: adjusting brightness kills AltGr key behaviour
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Thu Apr 16 11:56:41 UTC 2009
Package: gnome-power-manager
Version: 2.24.4-2
Severity: important
Dear all,
(going to Debian BTS and acpi mailing list)
I am having the following strange phenomenon:
When I log into the gnome session the AltGr key is working, thus on my
German kbd I get
AltGr-q -> AT sign
AltGr-8 -> open square bracket
...
As soon as I adjust the brightness with Fn-F5 or Fn-F6 the OSD with the
brightness level appears, the brightness is adjusted, but at the same
time the functionality of the AltGr key is lost. Pressing AltGr-q I get
a q instead of the AT sign.
This is 100% repeatable, and happens only in Gnome. I tried the failsafe
terminal session and pressing the keys did not change anything, nor the
brightness, nor the AltGr behaviour.
So I guess that the culprit is one of those adjusting the brightness, and
not the hardware support for sending the kbd events.
Since a missing AltGr on a German kbd means there is no AT, no curly nor
square brackets, etc, that is very disturbing, and I need to restart X
to get normal behaviour back.
Hard/Software:
- Sony Vaio VGN-Z11
- kernel 2.6.29 plus latest sony-acpi patches from Mattia/ACPI ML
- Debian/sid up2date
Hope that someone can help me there
All the best
Norbert
-- Package-specific info:
Distro version: squeeze/sid
Kernel version: 2.6.29
g-p-m version: 2.24.4
HAL version: 0.5.12
System manufacturer: missing
System version: missing
System product: missing
AC adapter present: yes
Battery present: yes
Laptop panel present: yes
CPU scaling present: yes
Battery Information:
battery.charge_level.current = 62650 (0xf4ba) (int)
battery.charge_level.design = 89260 (0x15cac) (int)
battery.charge_level.last_full = 89260 (0x15cac) (int)
battery.charge_level.percentage = 70 (0x46) (int)
battery.charge_level.rate = 17476 (0x4444) (int)
battery.is_rechargeable = true (bool)
battery.model = '' (string)
battery.present = true (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_charging = true (bool)
battery.rechargeable.is_discharging = false (bool)
battery.remaining_time = 5481 (0x1569) (int)
battery.reporting.current = 62650 (0xf4ba) (int)
battery.reporting.design = 89260 (0x15cac) (int)
battery.reporting.last_full = 89260 (0x15cac) (int)
battery.reporting.rate = 17476 (0x4444) (int)
battery.reporting.technology = 'Li-ion' (string)
battery.reporting.unit = 'mWh' (string)
battery.serial = '' (string)
battery.technology = 'lithium-ion' (string)
battery.type = 'primary' (string)
battery.vendor = 'Sony Corporation' (string)
battery.voltage.current = 11761 (0x2df1) (int)
battery.voltage.design = 10800 (0x2a30) (int)
battery.voltage.unit = 'mV' (string)
GNOME Power Manager Process Information:
HAL Process Information:
109 4155 0.0 0.1 36804 5500 ? Ss 12:58 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald
root 4221 0.0 0.0 15668 1244 ? S 12:58 0:00 \_ hald-runner
root 4263 0.0 0.0 28320 2064 ? S 12:58 0:00 \_ hald-ad
root 4307 0.0 0.0 28320 2052 ? S 12:58 0:00 \_ hald-ad
109 4310 0.0 0.0 32216 2036 ? S 12:58 0:00 \_ hald-ad
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.29 (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/bash
Versions of packages gnome-power-manager depends on:
ii consolekit 0.3.0-2 framework for defining and trackin
ii dbus-x11 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii gconf2 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii libc6 2.9-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcairo2 1.8.6-2+b1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.12-1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib 0.80-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgconf2-4 2.26.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.4-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.1-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome-key 2.26.0-3 GNOME keyring services library
ii libgnome2-0 2.24.1-2 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgstreamer 0.10.22-3 Core GStreamer libraries and eleme
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.14.7-5 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnotify1 [ 0.4.5-1 sends desktop notifications to a n
ii libpanel-app 2.24.3-1+b1 library for GNOME Panel applets
ii libpango1.0- 1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libunique-1. 1.0.8-1 Library for writing single instanc
ii libx11-6 2:1.2.1-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxext6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxrandr2 2:1.3.0-2 X11 RandR extension library
ii notification 0.4.0-1 a daemon that displays passive pop
gnome-power-manager recommends no packages.
gnome-power-manager suggests no packages.
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