Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:43:00 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > (I never tried kde, etc. so blaming it all on "xdm" for now, as that's > > > how I invoke X windows, and I don't want to get tangled up in the > > > > It is probably someth

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-22 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 11:43:00 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > (I never tried kde, etc. so blaming it all on "xdm" for now, as that's > > how I invoke X windows, and I don't want to get tangled up in the > > It is probably something else than xdm doing the nasty, though. > Right,

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-22 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Linux jidanni2 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Jun 12 16:26:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > $ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/driver > driver: ThinkPad ACPI Extras > version: 0.19 These do have the locking to the brightness paths. > $ grep think /var/log

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-21 Thread jidanni
H> Please tell me the exact version of the kernel and thinkpad-acpi $ uname -a Linux jidanni2 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Thu Jun 12 16:26:30 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ cat /proc/acpi/ibm/driver driver: ThinkPad ACPI Extras version:0.19 $ apt-show-versions linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 linux-imag

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > H> 1. If it is *spamming* your logs with *lots* of EC/NVRAM out of sync > No, that message only happens when I tried > echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness > to counteract xdm or whatever it is that turns my thinkpad to full > bri

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-19 Thread jidanni
H> 1. If it is *spamming* your logs with *lots* of EC/NVRAM out of sync No, that message only happens when I tried echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness to counteract xdm or whatever it is that turns my thinkpad to full brightness, as mentioned in this bug report. But now that

Bug#485465: thinkpad-acpi EC/NVRAM brightness sync errors

2008-06-19 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Well, at least the thinkpad-acpi angle I can help with. I am the kernel maintainer for thinkpad-acpi. 1. If it is *spamming* your logs with *lots* of EC/NVRAM out of sync messages, you need a newer thinkpad-acpi. Depending on your kernel version, a backport will be available at ibm-acpi.sf.net.