Hi Brice, * Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org> [070928 04:41]: > Nick Hastings wrote: > > After upgrading from 1:6.6.3-2 to 1:6.6.193-3 "the hotkeys" for > > increase and decrease brightness on my notebook stopped working under > > X. On a normal console (eg vt1 - vt6 ) the hotkeys work fine. > > > > This behaviour exists both with and without: > > > > Option "BIOSHotkeys" > > > > in the Device section of my xorg.conf > > > > My notebook is a "Fujitsu FMV-BIBLIO LOOX T93C" which as indicated > > below has a "M6 LY" controller. > > > > Please note that the symptoms of this bug appear to be are idential to > > bug #433876 but for a different controller. Apparently bug #433876 was > > fixed between versions 1:6.6.3-2 and 1:6.6.193-3 so I wonder if maybe > > this fix is resoponsible for the breakage with my "M6 LY". > > I guess you upgraded xserver-xorg-core from 1.3 to 1.4 at the same time. Correct. > So it's not completely clear that the problem is in > xserver-xorg-video-ati. To check that, could you try the package that I > rebuilt at: > http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/ati-rebuilds/6.6.3-Xserver1.4/ > It's the old 6.6.3 for the current xserver-xorg-core 1.4 in unstable. I installed it and the brightness hot keys started working again. So it seems the problem really was in the new video driver, not the new X. > Then, could you try xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.7.194-1 currently in > experimental? The 6.6.x branch is dead now, all the fixes are made in > the 6.7.x branch. I installed this too and it also returns the function of the brightness hot keys. So it seems whatever problems were introduced with the 6.7.193 driver have now been fixed. Thanks! Cheers, Nick. -- Nicholas C. Hastings, Research Staff Aihara Group/Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo
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