Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Oct 2008 01:19:52 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Thinkpad brightness keys kill X on 2.6.26.5 |
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Hi!
> I just upgraded from 2.6.25.17 to 2.6.26.5 on my Thinkpad Z61t, and found > the brightness keys will cause the X server to die. When using the > brightness up/down keys, the screen will go blank -- Control+Alt+F# will > still switch to a different virtual console, but switching back will not > restore the video state. > > After killing the window manager, I was able to bring up X again without > a problem -- but using the brightness keys still causes it to go blank > again within X, while the brightness does get changed correctly on the > console. > > There were no kernel messages, but this appeared in the Xorg log:
Yes, I had similar problems... for me it blanked screen on closing lid. Problem disappeared after upgrading X...
> .config attached -- is this a known issue? In the meantime, I'm starting > a bisection to figure out where the problem crops up.
For me CONFIG_ACPI_VIDEO never really worked...
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