Re: Unresponsive after use of fn button
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 03:54:30 -0700, Jack Nguy wrote:
> 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.
It might be enough to just use a kernel that is as new as the one in
Knoppix. If you want you can compile your own kernel from the Debian
sources while using the Knoppix kernel configuration file.
> On 7/26/06, Florian Kulzer 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.
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Regards,
Florian
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