Bug#524344: gnome-power-manager: adjusting brightness kills AltGr key behaviour

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 16 Apr 2009, preining wrote:
> > Also, it would be nice to know when this started happening: was it after
> > the gnome-settings-daemon upgrade, after the X.org upgrade or after the
> > libxklavier upgrade?
> 
> Puhhhh ... good question. I will try to find out something.
> 
> The problem is that before 2.6.29 recently with patches it was
> impossible to initiate the Gnome Power Manager backlight thingy because
> the keys weren't supported, i.e., Fn-F5 and Fn-F6 didn't work. That is
> only recent work and why I included linux-acpi.

I tried with 2.6.29-rc8 and the older sony-acpi plus the patches for
making the hotkeys work, and it is reproducible there, too (no
surprise).

One more data point: Unplugging the power does adjust the brightness but
+without* destroying AltGr behaviour.

No idea what i can do here. 

Best wishes

Norbert

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Debian Developer <preining at debian.org>                         Debian TeX Group
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