On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Niggemann wrote: > Hi all, > > since upgrading Wheezy -> Jessie, I have areproducible issue. I'll > try > my best to describe my setup, should anything be missing please ask > for > clarification. > > Environment > Lenovo T400 > Jessie (i686) > GNOME 3.14.1 > > I boot normally and log in. When pressing Fn+Home to increase > brightness > or Fn+End to decrease brightness, I observe a very sluggish behaviour > of > the on screen brightness display (i.e. the "indicator icon" with the > bar > beneath, not the brightness itself which changes instantly): It takes > almost one second before the icon comes up and the change in > brightness > is reflected on the osd. GNOME 3 needs a working OpenGL driver, or you'll get software rendering. Could this be the case? > Secondly, when repeating keypresses to change to brightness, the > indicator kind of "locks up", flickers (not the whole monitor, only > the > brightness indicator) and then the following message comes up: > "Could not grab your keyboard. A malicious client may be evesdropping > on > your session or [...]". > > After this, my keyboard is "gone" in X, i.e. no single keypress has > any > effect in any X application. The mouse functions normally, as do > applications. Changing to a virtual console via Ctrl-Alt-F1 works, > and > the keyboard is functioning normally there. That message comes from gksu. Not sure what's going on there, something goes wrong when it does the grab and stops keyboard input? > > Nothing strange in Xorg.0.log or Xorg.0.log.old. > I think brightness is managed through standard ACPI control: > thinkpad_acpi: detected a 16-level brightness capable ThinkPad > thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness > control, supported by the ACPI video driver > thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by > default... > thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface available, not > loading > native one > > Any ideas why the indicator may show this sluggish behaviour (which I > expect to be the reason for the keyboard malfunction)? Maybe, or two separate issues made worse by each other? -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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