david b. wrote: > Package: hal > Version: 0.5.11-8 > Severity: important > > My laptop a dell latitude d400, can hang/ and or hal takes up all my cpu. > To repoduce this bug, > 1. turn on the dim screen option in gnome power power settings. > 2. Then use the laptop for a minute. > 3. leave it alone for 30seconds to 1 minute > 4. find that the laptop takes around 5-7 seconds to respond to keyboard / > mouse movements. > > A workaround is disabling the 'dim' screen option in gnome power management. > This problem as documented on the ubuntu list(see below), can crash the > system. > > > > The exact error that hal reports (when running in verbose mode, not as a > daemon) is "addon-dell-backlight.cpp:214: Received Setbirghtness Dbus call" > + "addon-dell-backlight.cpp:116: Could not access the dcdbas kernel module. > Please make sure it is loaded. " > > (perhaps this is a dbus bug ?). > > > Note: (i have a bios password set) > > references: > http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-b...@lists.ubuntu.com/msg905584.html > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7221
Are you sure the dcdbas kernel module is loaded (check with lsmod) According to the upstream bug report you quotet, this bug is already fixed. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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