Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:07 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote:
>> Hi all,
> Same problem with Acer Aspire 5712Z. I posted here some time ago about
> it, but got no answer solving the problem. And then it want away with a
> kernel upgrade, and came back with a new upgrade. I found 2 others ways
> to get out of it when it happen: I have created a second user, and
> logging back and forth to the second user brings back the backlight to
> full strength. No way to set it using the function, but it's work. The
> second way is to go to console, CTRL+ALT+ F1, try to change the
> brightness, it will show an error, then go back to the regular user,
> problem is fixed! At least, I dont have to go back to vista!!!!!
Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the
output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the
screen?
BTW, it seems to be related to this kernel bug:
Buggy _BCM - acer aspire 5720G, 5710Z, 5315
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121
(see comment #28 for other possible affected Acer laptop models)
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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