Re: Kernel 2.6.23-1 disables brightness controls?
On Friday 28 December 2007 13:07:35 you wrote:
> Thanks all for the comments -- I will try to reply and update them all:
>
> 1. Volume controls work properly.
> 2. However, when one tries to power off the system, the kernel hangs.
> I can get more specific details on which point this happens, but it is
> somewhere during the shutdown process. The only solution is to force a
> hard poweroff.
> 3. The exact version of the kernel is 2.6.23-1-powerpc, as found in
> the Debian Sid repositories. I haven't compiled any modules for it.
ah, sid is known to have problems from time to time.
>
> I don't have problems sticking with 2.6.18-5, which works quite fine
> save for a couple of minor issues (the wireless card detects
> constantly signals of 100% quality, even if the reception is really
> much worse...
Yes so be it, but for me this seems much better than the current, witch tells
me its about 50% - 70%. While I know strenght IS 90% - 100%.
> On the other hand, the wireless resumes flawlessly from
> sleep, which I find more valuable than knowing exactly how bad the
> signal is),
That WAS a treat. I wonder why they F* that up. I really liked that.
> but I am curious to know if these problems I find with
> 2.6.23 are common, or just something specific to my machine
I've experienced some hard resets from time to time.
Idle machine results in non working keyboard after a few hours.
Suspends stops functioning from time to time.
Screen dimming takes the night after a few suspends.
Always fan activity from some reason.
Always harddisk rotating (due to ext3 witch is new to me?) reiser shut down
the disk after a fashion (started it soon after to do maintenance, but still)
> .
>
> In any case, I'll try 2.6.24 when it comes out.
I think the developers took december off! ;D
but hell yeah. .22 and .23 seems to have some irritating flaws, but the logs
show squat and without a functioning keyboard its hard to see whats going on.
seems that bluetooth/usb is mighty dependent on some the same hid stuff, witch
leaves me quite alone with the usb mouse witch still functions(???) while a
usb keyboard is as good as firewood.
>
> Thanks all again,
> Denís.
>
> 2007/12/26, Børge Holen <borge@arivene.net>:
> > On Wednesday 26 December 2007 00:34:22 Tony Breeds wrote:
> > > On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 08:54:44PM +0100, Denís Fernández Cabrera wrote:
> > > > Hello people,
> > > >
> > > > I have recently upgraded my laptop (iBook G4) to kernel 2.6.23-1,
> > > > which seems to be working perfectly in everything but the control of
> > > > screen brightness.
> > > >
> > > > The screen is fixed to some intermediate level of brightness which I
> > > > can't change. Whenever I press Fn+F1 or F2, the dialog of
> > > > GTKPBButtons appears, but displaying "Brightness 0%", and never
> > > > changing the value nor the real brightness of the screen.
> > > >
> > > > Does anybody else experience this? Does anbody know how to fix it, or
> > > > to what it can be related?
> > >
> > > I think this is broken in 2.6.23. I also think it's been fix in .24
> > > when it comes out.
> >
> > say, we talkin bout em .23.x kernels or some 23-1 flavour? Can't speak
> > for the flavour but vanilla've never worked this flawless since 2.6.17...
> >
> > > Yours Tony
> > >
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