Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2010-01-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote: Hi all, It's working for about 10 days now!! Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2009-12-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Actually, the patch given here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=22001 solved the problem for a few people. As for me, the problem is not annoying me that much that I will go and compile my own kernel. I use the trick of starting a second user, and switch back and forth until the

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2009-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:13:26 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2009 19:56:10 Camaleón wrote: >> >> Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the >> output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the >> screen? >> >> BTW, it seems

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2009-12-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 19 December 2009 19:56:10 Camaleón wrote: > > Can you both please run "dmesg | grep brightness" and copy/paste the > output after you press the function key to change the brightness of the > screen? > > BTW, it seems to be related to this kernel bug: > > Buggy _BCM - acer aspire 5720

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2009-12-19 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:16:07 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote: >> Hi all, > Same problem with Acer Aspire 5712Z. I posted here some time ago about > it, but got no answer solving the problem. And then it want away with a > kernel upgra

Re: Backlight bug on Acer Aspire 7720

2009-12-19 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 19 December 2009 18:07:11 Thomas McCullough wrote: > Hi all, Hi, Same problem with Acer Aspire 5712Z. I posted here some time ago about it, but got no answer solving the problem. And then it want away with a kernel upgrade, and came back with a new upgrade. I found 2 others ways to