Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:19:03 -0600 | From | Robert Hancock <> | Subject | Re: [regression] display dimming is slow and laggy |
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Maximilian Engelhardt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using kernel 2.6.26-rc6 at the moment and with it dimming the display is > slow and laggy. Using kernel 2.6.25 doesn't show this problem. > > Here is a more detailed explanation: > > I'm dimming my display with the appropriate keys on my laptop (Fn + > right/left). Till kernel 2.6.25 this has worked without any problems. Now I'm > using 2.6.26-rc6 and using the keys the display is dimming much slower and > also laggy. By laggy I mean if I hit the keys for increasing/decreasing > brightness it starts dimming and when I release the keys after some time it > still continues dimming for some steps. > > My laptop is a Acer Travelmate 661lci and has an Intel 855 chipset. > > I'll attach my dmesg output, please tell me if you need any further > information.
Think you forgot the dmesg. Are you seeing a "ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE" message? See:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
This seems to affect a lot of Acer laptops.
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