I have indeed a similar problem with the same machine. When I press the Fn+F5 key, my graphic display always shows crazy patterns, which I didn't manage yet to go away. I usually then have to remove the supply cable and the battery, then reboot.
'sudo service acpid stop' didn't change anything of this. In fact I have reached it in two situations that the VGA output was active and the beamer shows some pictures. But I can't get this reliably to be done, so it's quite useless. The same computer with the formerly installed Windows XP had no problems with this key and external monitors/beamers. -- Acer TravelMate 290: Fn + F5 (CRT/LCD) cause crash-down https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/70064 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
