Re: Unresponsive after use of fn button

["Jack Nguy" <Jack@JackNguy.com>]

Hello. I guess I was wrong. Passing in the acpi=off flag still causes
stalling after adjusting brightness. The interesting thing is after
booting from a knoppix cd, it works fine. I guess I'm just going to
have to take apart the knoppix kernel. Thanks for the tip.

Jack


On 7/26/06, Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 11:59:59 -0700, Jack Nguy wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After putting it off as long as I could, and upgrade to 2.6.8 from a
> > 2.4.24 kernel causes the use of the fn buttons to render the machine
> > useless. I have a Dell X200. After some poking around, it seems to be
> > associated with ACPI, although I'm not sure exactly what. The machine
> > completely freezes when I try to adjust brightness. Any ideas?
>
> Try to boot with appending the "acpi=off" directive. That should at
> least tell you if the problem is really due to acpi.
>
> --
> Regards,
>           Florian
>
>
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